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The word 'pipers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pipersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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 pipers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
He is thi Prince o Pipers, on page 30

1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
d be syne. Think on’t, aa e pipers an drummers, nae seein fit hi
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
. Her Grunny telt her foo the pipers aye led the ither sodgers int on page 15

1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
an the bonie pipers playin in yon kid-on Balmoral on page 141

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
trate, tae speak, tae listen. Pipers jyned by squads o bikers, stu
1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
. A fair likeet him. Hei took pipers a' ower the world, hei did. T
and ana, and some really guid pipers and drummers came oot o' ther
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Whan pipers sortit wars on page 51

3 matches

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