A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

piercing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of piercing in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t big hoop earrings n a cheek piercing. There's a millimetre gap _ b on page 26

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
John straucht-on wi his dark piercing een. 'Nane but yersel, Jock W on page 31

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ht. Lugs barked and I heard a piercing sound, beyond a high note fae
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
illed th' deidly silence, mah piercing scream. Ah felt mah pipes bur
1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ine, ah'm tae feart tae get a piercing! xx https://t.co/uh3peivx1d(2017) search twitter