A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 8 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1715 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 2

Occurrences of speil in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
rhinoceros oot in the wilds ~ speil the nearest tree and bide the on page 61

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
s no dowie, lass, for aa your speil: on page 45

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Nor aa the speil o Mirabeau on page 55

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e Tormod Dòmhnullach, a fine speil anent a muckle broun bull an on page 126

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
nae thocht o tellin what thon speil frae the ayont the grauf wes on page 137

1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 76 - I am the Lass, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
an here’s Her speil:
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
afore dunchin the bell a lang speil, chappin at the same time on
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
en ma da was gonnae start his speil aboot the wean bein the new l
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
nto, Cecco Angiolieri. Here a speil anent him an hou he cuist out
mirkie tae my myn, its kittle speil
coudna jist uptak the kittle speil
Kempin wi Dante in a verbal speil,
4 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
he hous-heid the spankers did speil,
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
y, Jed began tae cam oot wi a speil he hid larned ower his years
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
t Scots bit nae heard it. Yer speil is fair clear an convincin. M(2020) search twitter

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