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Use in varieties of Scots

spaeks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.6 4.8 0 79.5 127.9 0 0
Number of occurrences399 0 8 22 0 0
Number of authors7 2 1 4

Occurrences of spaeks 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
"ai"), tae gang wi hou a body spaeks. Examples is "guid", "tuith"
es (eg liftin that the French spaeks French naitral, no juist for
rite gey like the wey A masel spaeks, but that spellins he uised t
A kent bi this that no aabody spaeks the same kin o Scots.
4 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
gage. Even the michty Lorimer spaeks o the star o Bethlehem stappi
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
But he says that’s hou thay spaeks whaur he belangs! An here me
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
lcome mat. “You deif?” he spaeks the time he signs, juist in c
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Wha spaeks Shetlandic? RT an Click here: (2019) twitter link
Wha spaeks the Orkney dialect? RT an cli (2019) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Astrid spaeks aboot the journey, on page 11
aaldness o her staetion haem, spaeks whit sheu disno ken. An eftir on page 48
y tae wirk a better wey. Sheu spaeks gey weel. Sheu wis been pract on page 85
the center o the center. Hid spaeks; her haands grip, ungrip, gri on page 101
ng." Astrid canno spaek. Sheu spaeks: "Am no feelan hid." Darling on page 111

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
n a teknicly monolingual body spaeks to thir clossest freinds i a
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
postmestir o Gaelic orichins spaeks an aksentid Standard Engleesh
tlee recordan hoo the spaekir spaeks noo, sweechis an a. This is m
2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ldest een demaands da tale An spaeks abön wis aa. on page 5

2 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Da Loard Spaeks ta Samuel on page 21
oot Job - an see if ony-ean spaeks back ta dee. Will da angels n on page 27
his wyes fir dis is whaar he spaeks ta wis. Whanivir der's an onk on page 73

3 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
tudy o soonds, an dis section spaeks aboot da soond system o Shaet on page 22
stanes" o wirds. Dis section spaeks aboot da main biggeen stanes on page 38
-s: spaeks 'speaks, talks' on page 44
entity) or pronoun (a wird at spaeks aboot fokk or things) idda he on page 46
Personal pronouns spaeks aboot da spaeker (da first pe on page 52
Also on pages 61, 71, 77, 87, 97
11 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
, come ta dat. Geordie never spaeks aboot it, an maybe he's forgo
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
dialect at some Shaetlan fock spaeks. In idder wirds, fae bein dia
8. Fock at spaeks dialect needna can ta read or
weetie’ article, Tom Morton spaeks aboot da problems o writin in
staet no for da sake o dem at spaeks it, bit for da sake o a minor
ion foo mony fock at actually spaeks laek dis reads Leonard’s po
5 matches

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