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The word 'sparra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sparraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4137
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 31.9 7 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sparra 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.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
But wur cocky wee sparra he didna ken hoo, on page 70

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
t o naewye... doon flew a wee sparra that landed on the tap o the
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
times granny called them cock sparra's though. on page 70

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
un wae a light coverin. A wee sparra catches ma attention, tenacio
1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
arm roond hur back. “Ma wee sparra.”
ettie loved bein callt ma wee sparra. God knows she’d the appeti
and ah never callt hur ma wee sparra again.
“Sparra,” ah said, and she looked u
Ah wis still callin hur sparra back then. Truth be told, ah
6 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
A sparra or a braw wee sprug, on page 18

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
sel aboot the lug fir cryin a sparra a speug at 5, didnae ken the (2020)