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The word 'bagpipes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bagpipesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bagpipes in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
en o my hobbies is playin the bagpipes. I’m a member o Inverurie P
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
r Macinnon faa sorted amongst bagpipes. Jeemicky cairried the pipes
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
sted there bi the skirl o the bagpipes. Safe on a bank ooto sicht o
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
o bagpipes. Jonsar started tae laugh an
bagpipes, och bit at least he's gettin
2 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
aed on aboot kilts, tartan an bagpipes. A few o the craftsfowk were
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t o Scotland? Wis it aa juist bagpipes, reels an fowk sangs? I pat o
n tartan, the bellum o massed bagpipes drounin oot maist aa else. Ju
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Davie Riddle whae played the bagpipes wi mei; i the Hawick Boy’s
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Burnin Whins, (Luath 2004) Central, poetry
Ye set aff wi yer bagpipes at twentie,
1 matches

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