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Use in varieties of Scots

backspeirin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences41 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of backspeirin in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
lexicographical focus in his backspeirin intil the tairms ‘Maills an
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Pictur o Misery, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
as if backspeirin the warld on page 69

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
at foo clivver he wis wi his backspeirin. His mither an fadder were du on page 83

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
centres an say ah’ve a quick backspeirin fur ye - ma loon ah hiv quic(2017) search twitter

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