A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spikey Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of spikey in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
bag n fuck it right over the spikey fence. Ma pals ir aw gawn wil on page 15

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aboot twenty-odd an he's got spikey blond hair an blue eyes, an h on page 22
rray Hart) an thiv aw got mad spikey hair lik parakeets an they aw on page 75

2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
onkers lay in their wee green spikey jaikets, knights' maces o aul
1 matches

Shetland

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
His hair wis grey, short and spikey but he hed a muckle smeeg on
1 matches

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