A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spells Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 6.7 6 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences2013 4 1 2 0 0
Number of authors15 9 3 1 2

Occurrences of spells in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an noo thair oreeginal spells hae bin replaced on page 26

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
That spells difficulty.' on page 141
... H... I... T' he pleeped, 'spells "whit"! on page 149

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
hen Mrs MacSween wove magical spells, on page 128

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
rin bak ti the dictionar. Fur spells "The Recommends fur Scots Wry on page 10
l o Scots, wi aw the wirds an spells frae siccar precedes suid be on page 11
mukkil maucht argiefiein owre spells an that, an wul note ti be re on page 25

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and brek auld spells on page 20

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ent for spellin reform? Ghoti spells fish - gh as in rough, o as on page 56

1 matches

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
bauchil public texts wi orrae spells.
1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
in the first o fower essays, spells oot why historically the fech
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@derekjames150 A word that spells oot "See You Next Tuesday"(2020) search twitter

Doric

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - My Faither's Fowk, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
in inglish, it spells oot: on page 37

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ock fa gart them shift wi his spells:
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ldron wi a hotchpotch o magic spells, that fulled his
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Jist realised he spells his name Jiim. Fits at a aboo(2020) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
wane, but there must be lang spells o the year when wur deficient(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
da hard ridges an grooves dat spells me. I twirl me rake aroond in
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
rammarless dialect. If somene spells ‘plaet’ as P-L-I-T, as if
1 matches

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