A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spaekan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.3 0 0 318 0 0 0
Number of occurrences320 0 32 0 0 0
Number of authors7 7

Occurrences of spaekan in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thir been spaekan agenst me, the young wans the on page 27

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
errand or ither. Wae hid been spaekan aboot some programme on the t on page 13

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid's been right grand spaekan bit ah'll hae tae go. on page 80
hin a dram. We aye end up no spaekan case ah'm spoilt hid aal agai on page 81

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
aboot a uncan wey o spaekan, o wirkan, on page 8
a dizzen decades o haadan an spaekan her mind. So Noor swipes ower on page 58
ea, an sits ithoot drinkan or spaekan. Sheu taks a haad o the wheel on page 68
jeust Darling at's smilan an spaekan yet. on page 84
no gaan tae discuss whit A'm spaekan aboot?" "Yass, yass," says Un on page 86
Also on pages 101
6 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Spaekan in quiet voices ur no at aal on page 34
Thir been spaekan agenst me, the young wans the on page 152

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
Darling at’s yet smilan an spaekan.
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
g thur language tae the fore. Spaekan Orcadian or Shetlandic on the
tae the 2011 census reported spaekan or understandan Scots. Wid th
2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
oot lukkan at the wey fock ir spaekan nou, hou Orcadian is interact
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
d (or the next toun ower) wis spaekan, steid o assuman we shared wi
1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
ae German "herbst". So ær we spaekan aboot autumn when we say "her
hen we say "herst", or ær we spaekan aboot harvest?

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
The Eday buddy spaekan o a coo
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
immersd in twa sindree weis o spaekan: the Standard English o mee f
sooth. A tak on aspekts o the spaekan at’s aboot mee, wharivir Aâ
wichis tae brod Orcadian whan spaekan tae lokals askan fir a hand f
™s eequalee hersh on inkomirs spaekan (or traiän tae spaek) Orcadi
konkleuzhin – in a pees fir spaekan at’s rot in firmil Engleesh
12 matches

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