A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speug Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 4 0 0 0 41.3 0
Number of occurrences128 0 0 0 4 0
Number of authors9 8 1

Occurrences of speug in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
A baby speug arrives, on page 61

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
yon sparrow's a speug, on page 16

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
It's a scene wi a speug and a wee roond cat and a man on page 131

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
thin aboot her was wee. Lik a speug she was and hir features matc
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
fae ony speug in ony street.
1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
#scotnight whaup gowdspink speug lintie hoolet blackie doo. ..(2016) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ae stop me yasing words like 'speug' or 'dub' or 'speddart' which(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ae stop me yasing words like 'speug' or 'dub' or 'speddart' which(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ge 6 bi a teacher fir cryin a speug a speug an no kennin it wis c (2020) twitter link
the lug fir cryin a sparra a speug at 5, didnae ken the wird spa(2020) search twitter