A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spaeker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.8 3.2 0 19.9 75.6 0 0
Number of occurrences216 0 2 13 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of spaeker in Corpus

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Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ey typical o Burns, nae Scots spaeker wad want tae read oot the wey
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
trait" an "straight". A Scots spaeker haes less o a excuise tae nif
ae niffer thir than a English spaeker haes, but a body dis hear fol
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
eadin this, ony modren native spaeker'll see richt awa what's wrang
the Scots mony a modren Scots spaeker wad uize is sax an six, but D
fameeliar ti ony modren Scots spaeker as it wis ti the Edwardians.
3 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ud spaek (sheu wis a backerly spaeker): her mither held her in fier on page 81

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
sific merkir wirds at sha the spaeker’s Orcadian. This, fir mee,
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Du's an aafil poor spaeker," said da Keeng. on page 114

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Da hindmaist spaeker (or "minder") o Norn died in on page 15
parteeclar soonds o a certain spaeker, bit d'ir da gineral soond sy on page 22
onal pronouns spaeks aboot da spaeker (da first person), da address on page 52
/we spak til Mary means at da spaeker(s) did sumthin, so da pronoun on page 53
thing an assumes at baith da spaeker an da body on page 61
Also on pages 62, 76, 90, 95
12 matches

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