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The word 'piano'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pianoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3149
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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 piano in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
s guidwife stertit bashin the piano keys for the fower himes. The on page 100

2 matches

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
sical. We’ve baith played i piano and noo we play i fiddle. We
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
When bevuto Italiano, gae piano-piano!
-piano!
2 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
py wi me. It's kind ae lit ma piano lessons in high school. Ah wi on page 8
o Mrs De Luca, ma high school piano teacher, may she rest in peac on page 11

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
she wis staundin on tap o the piano tryin no tae get trampelt int on page 38
u. He'll be able tae play the piano wi his feet.' on page 155

2 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Waits classic with me on the piano over on my Patreon. https://t(2020)

@jamieonkeys tweeted
queer twist in my tune #jazz #piano #jazzpiano https://t.co/a9CeV(2019)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
. So I can now - he's a crap piano player. There. ?? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ameron’s sister, played the piano fur oor dancing it oor Xmas c
ep bobbin roond the end o the piano tae sei hou wei dancers wur m
2 matches

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