A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

specky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of specky in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
unded a map o the school by a specky wumman wi short grey hair who on page 6
ove Harry Potter, and if that specky bugger is anyfink, it's true on page 17

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
thae twa specky guys on page 1

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e couch as we squeeze by, the specky boay underneath it groanin ba
1 matches

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
here is no way back from bald specky and fat. #bants #PeaceAndLove(2020) search twitter