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The word 'piggin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pigginOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3112
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 25.8 10 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 piggin in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Alex piggin Rae what an insult(2020)

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
oot haudin fir an aunswer. “Piggin Ingland. That’s whaur. Thai
whaur. Thai’ll aw be re - piggin - jycin.”
sweerin wis tae crie onythin piggin. He kent somethin wis gey fau
hes Mum descrievit onythin is piggin. “Ay,” Annie wis sayin.
thai’r slaigerin ower thair piggin royalty.”
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