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The word 'piggie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
piggieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3142
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 piggie in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
ANITHER PIGGIE TALE on page 76
Tam got on weel wi piggie, as he fed an mucked him oot, on page 77
Set forth intae the piggie's hoose, (you should hae haer on page 78
Piggie saa Tam's fleean shadow, an d on page 79
Wi rank an 'ripened' piggie muck, id really is "quite rar on page 80

7 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
And though he ate the piggie fast, on page 43
But this yin, Piggie Nummer Three, on page 44
'Dear Piggie,' said she. 'Hae nae doot on page 46
Och, Piggie, ye must never trust on page 47

5 matches

Fitt, Matthew Whuppity Stoorie, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
"Noo, I'll mend yer piggie and ye can tak him tae the me
wife. "If ye can save ma wee piggie, I'll gie ye onythin ye want.
2 matches

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