A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speaking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 9 16 9.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences3017 10 1 1 0 1
Number of authors22 13 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of speaking in Corpus

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Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
Naebody speaking or on page 61

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ing exercise and then I'll be speaking to the other English teachers on page 43

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
he heichest nummers for Scots speaking ever recordit. Ower 1.5 milli on page 37

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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
gs and clatter and mony Scots-speaking experts ably presented their
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
‘exercise’ for actors in speaking Classical Scots, and as a con
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Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
e boy doesnae sound like he's speaking Scots naturally he makes it s
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
note "It is a servant who is speaking", efter a speech bi the perce
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
u, for there's nae end o your speaking!"
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
"ought not to be speaking that way"?
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
el be wonderin hoo I hae been speaking sae little to ye for sae lang
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Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
a few times it was me she wis speaking to. That Finn is a big bairn
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Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Ostensibly I'm speaking in defence of weegie patter
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@DABArbuckle tweeted
@DerekBateman2 @tartanroots Speaking as a principal teacher who wa(2020) search twitter
sed tae also say "sie" before speaking a sentence. It was a contract(2020) search twitter
their condolences. Is he noo speaking fae the grave?(2020) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
and made to feel inferior for speaking with a Scottish accent when y (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
guidelines are ridiculous - speaking to people like they are walli (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ns. "Who actually goes around speaking like that Robbie Shepherd guy on page 8
"This is your pilot speaking. Welcome on board Flight BY59 on page 41

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
w he's left me and everyone's speaking about it...laughing at me...s on page 76

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
les who like to flirt without speaking and to socialise in a friendl on page 36

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Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
be as strong fan it comes tae speaking tae uthers. Yi kane ah ma sec
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
‘Yes. Speaking.’
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@cligeey tweeted
@putey_pute @youngwd1 I wisna speaking about Glasgow(2020) search twitter
Heard Dalglish speaking aboot Lennon and Mcleish aboo(2020) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
n i am honestly sick fed up o speaking aboot at boy. Just kill um(2013) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ecause I am teaching to Scots speaking bairns I'll use ben as a Scot (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
io Orkney kad “The Crime of Speaking Proper”, whar he deskraibs
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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-in: spaekin 'speaking, talking' on page 44

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Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
sonCPNI @MisssPatrice Imagine speaking Irish in Irishland. Thons a d(2019) search twitter