A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spikk Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.2 0 65.7 89.4 0 0 0
Number of occurrences500 41 9 0 0 0
Number of authors8 5 3

Occurrences of spikk in Corpus

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Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
oot lood. 'Ye dinna need tae spikk oot lood, ye gype, jist think on page 84

6 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
A spikk nae aften heard in Corgarff on page 15

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
straikin her hair. She didnae spikk, fur she'd nae tongue, and th on page 122

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
. Normally, he wis daured tae spikk tae strangers, nae that he iv
sin bi degrees in the fremmit spikk, unsattled him. Aabody kent a
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
t he likit them, bi touch, bi spikk, an mebbe even bi smell, if f
ies an steenies, belangin tae Spikk Thamson an his wife Molly, fa
o Steenhillock. Fowk caad him Spikk fur he seldom opened his mou,
pion cull. bit fowk said that spikk o Northies micht makk a bette
e anely fussled twa tunes did Spikk, Katy Beardie and the Leddrac
11 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
uick in the uptak o the local spikk. Faith! In mony wyes she wis
chiel sit doon an hae the wee spikk aboot Aids testin – nae aff
ither. Syne they hid thir wee spikk aboot Aids, offerin up a fing
her lug. "Ye ken weel nae tae spikk o sic maitters. If we choose
hale new meanin tae the auld spikk, "close in bluid" – keepin
10 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
He’s the ane I’d like tae spikk til, bit he’ll be lang deid
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e like a steen. It disna even spikk.”
ohnny gaed reid. Afore he cud spikk, the bussie arrived. Fit the
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
The Spikk o the Nor East Leid
s lang as I’ve a tongue tae spikk, I’ll praise the wirds o my
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
his accordian. Fan he herd mi spikk he remixed in Northern Lights(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
We spikk aboot the Euro and the troubl on page 64

2 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
t weys/wiys. Some fokk write 'spikk'; some fokk, 'spaek'; some, ' on page 8

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Spikk By on page 33

6 matches

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