A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spakk Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 0 13.6 0 46.5 0 0
Number of occurrences170 9 0 8 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of spakk in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
she’d cheenged the wye she spakk.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Syne, Jock Dow spakk looder, an the two cousins di
e'd spukken afore them as she spakk fin she wis wi Minnie. As yet
n foo tae cheenge the wye she spakk, nur did she hae till yet, fu
ill yet, fur aabody aroon her spakk the same barr mebbe Isie. Eve
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
or a meenister; or if onybody spakk the name o a grumphie, the bo
Jed spakk aa this wioot draain braith:
Jeems spakk o the wee yalla idol o Ganesh
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
e leid that Burns’s faither spakk, an Fergusson’s: sae swete
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
her. Whin ony ane at da wark spakk aboot sometheen dey wir seen on page 5
polite tae strangers, bit we spakk nae want among wirsels. Ertie on page 13
eel heth da day cam whin shü spakk straight anyoch ta him, an da on page 14
aain ta wir ain shop. You aye spakk wi someane, an dey wir fokk w on page 15
ned. Laekly it wis da wye dey spakk aboot Nicola at medd it aa co on page 20
Also on pages 37, 39, 49
8 matches

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