A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spae Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 3.2 0 0 0 10.9 17.7
Number of occurrences116 0 0 0 1 4
Number of authors9 5 1 3

Occurrences of spae in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ma heid, that an auld Sabine spae-wife on page 124

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Sin ail an doitin spae on page 80

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Whether spae or tellin, Weir's last on page 112

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
She'd heard tell o a spae-man loun, on page 141

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
“Ti veisit the spae-wyfe,” he reponed an pyntit
spae-wyfes or wutch-doctours. Bot
2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
is aye mair i the eemage o ae spae wife than
1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The jag wuz gien as weel tae spae: on page 53

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whun aa bes owre, wha wudnae spae on page 6

1 matches

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