A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 6.7 3 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1813 2 2 0 0 1
Number of authors9 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of speel in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
we thir urban speel fowk started ti listen on page 72

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
t is shown that Teegers dinna speel Trees on page 50
'Can they speel trees better than Pooh?' spie on page 57
'I aye said Teegers could speel trees.' on page 58
ger's back! And Teegers canna speel doon the wey, because their t on page 61
ainly speel up the wey, and Teeger forgot on page 62
Also on pages 70
8 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the Faws o Damff. Efter a bit speel alang a wee burn north o Cair on page 65

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Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
then she rattult aff this big speel that ah couldnae make heid no
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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
ernment's commitments, an the speel thit wull follae this consult
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er then gee me the "bullying" speel, because av given some back t (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d curls a shak an stairtit er speel: on page 60

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
reath es he stairtit is sales speel: on page 11

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
he banks, bit faith hid wis a speel, and if the baith o' them no
bune the banks, efter a great speel o' wark, they baith wir weel
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Ulster

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
e watter, twa fechtin men wud speel up an ower, or swing han-ower
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