A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

piper Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 8.2 12.1 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2516 8 0 0 1 0
Number of authors17 11 5 1

Occurrences of piper in Corpus

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Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
tit wi an unexpectit sound. A piper an drummer, brawlie buskit aa on page 25

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
es on here. Him that peys the piper caws the tune, no tae mention on page 19

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
r sithean. Monie a fiddler or piper is said tae hae been spiritit on page 29
Ogilvy, somwhaur round aboot Piper's Den. They dedicated their l on page 81

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
a piper played The Emigrant's Dream. on page 18

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Pied Piper o Auchinleck on page 29

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Peter Piper on page 6

3 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ither, wi the subteetle o The Piper of the Party, a collection o on page 69

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
hrou the ongauns o Lallie the Piper, wha wins awa ithout a skart, on page 140

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
A piper met her gaun tae Fife,
1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
an fiddler, Gillian Frame an piper Simon MacKerrell, baith o the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
s. Richt eneuch, thir's aye a piper or twa aroon, bit tae hae gra
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
prefer the music fae a Sidhe piper,” sayed Laren Bhain.
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
drjanaway ? yas!! Furra maris piper!!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
the waur for't. Her man wis a piper during the waar (nae the last on page 15

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Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Hiv A met a piper wi hans like mine." on page 23
"An noo tae ye ma piper prince, on page 31

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Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
He took up reportin' fir i' Piper on page 112

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ow led them aff like the Pied Piper tae the neist hoose.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
arhaun till the herbour far a piper droont their skirls till the
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t and her father haein been a piper also added tae that. Her mith
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
lay on the fleer, haimmered a piper an
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
n and the Needle's Ee and the Piper's Cave will aw be there when (2020) search twitter