A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sparky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of sparky in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Then up spoke an Eskimo, sparky an spruce,
1 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
A sparky fay Partick sade it's impossi
Puddles wur jumpin aroond the sparky's feet
2 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ken where ah’d be wi’oot Sparky noo.’
Ye’ve gat a ghost dug callt Sparky?’
2 matches

Doric

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DonsBarca Aht's Sparky rates.??(2020) search twitter