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Use in varieties of Scots

speecial Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 2.6 10.6 0 81.4 0 0
Number of occurrences265 7 0 14 0 0
Number of authors7 1 3 3

Occurrences of speecial in Corpus

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Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
likes o "päcify", an uizes a speecial diacritic for the "u" in wird
aut an uizin "ie" for certain speecial cases, an "ei" juist as a dia
· Bein few, speecial attention is aesy afforded;
· Bein uized aa the time, speecial spellins is suin lairnt.
The raeson for wantin speecial spellins at aa is sae's a dif
5 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"Ay, A wis makkin it speecial for this wee loon's saicant b on page 100

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
daarkness. The waiters aa hiv speecial goggles fir seein it nicht an on page 49
"Wi'v a speecial offer oan eyvnoo," interrupti on page 69

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
d-farrand food onless 'twis a speecial event – forbye those fowk f
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
, sae bricht, sae bonnie, sae speecial, glirnmerin abeen the stage t
“It wis naethin speecial, quo Kirsty. “There’s nae
problem, bit the nicht wis a speecial nicht-it wis firewirks
3 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
da seeventh. Dis wis ta be a speecial day - a day o paece ta tak p on page 4
ill-lik body. He wis naethin speecial, or so we towt. We pey'd nae on page 59
w starn an dis telt dem dat a speecial king hed been born. Dey wante on page 81
a dis. He saa dat Jesus wis a speecial body - wi somethin 8peecial on page 87
you, you're no dön onything speecial. Aabody dus dat. on page 91
Also on pages 107, 167
10 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
kind o speecial form fir da present tense is on page 71
at's spaekin. Shaetlan haes a speecial kind o reactive response at on page 98

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
aks up his mind ta mix a very speecial medicine ta lairn Granny a le
eled oot wis markit DARK TAN. Speecial. He scoopit hit aa oot wi an
2 matches

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