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The word 'pi'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
piOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 pi in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@mcbainne @air_ingy At wid pi in the Foons at Westhill(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s this fuckin lunatic hired a PI in the first place. on page 107

1 matches

Duncan, Robert Peeweep, (Wigtown 2015) Central - Lumphinnans, poetry
‘Pi-rip, pee-weep,
‘pi-rip, pee-weep,
‘pi-rip, pee-weeep.’
3 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
at we dinnae expect bairns in PI tae be able tae read or spell on page 89

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An ins-pi-ra-tion-al story! on page 146

1 matches

General Central

@weenell3 tweeted
@RealStephenKerr Mair Tory pi** you're hardly a qualified E (2022) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Ah had'nae en'ught tae pi' for it noo. on page 13

1 matches

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