A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spelled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spelledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spelled in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
r weekend wis helja (mebbe no spelled richt) which is similar tae S

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
thinkin hou A wird should be spelled, A leuks for it in the SND an
Scots an Scottish English is spelled the same.
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Nigel spelled it. on page 70
Amazinly, Prudence spelled it richt and wioot switherin. on page 140
ellochin, "The word "whit" is spelled W... H... I... T. Noo spell i on page 148
d o the inglestane tales, and spelled asleep, on page 178

4 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
assume that because a word is spelled the same as in Standard Engli on page 18
ic consistency such words are spelled with the 'nd', e.g. haund and on page 19

2 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Yet spelled are forest, sea an baist,
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@ashdouglasscot The lads spelled it Di, an it took me a wee wh(2019)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
t the word ‘standardise’ is spelled differently in British Engli(2019)

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
@little_pengelly It's spelled Wimmin!(2016)