Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speen	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.2	0	30.1	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	20	0	20	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	8		8

Occurrences of speen in Corpus

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Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
their weis heep's a different speen's an furk's an nyfe's, cus ei on page 40

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sie, pickin up a shiny silver speen. on page 17
ee metal dishie an sookin the speen. on page 18
otterin pink mass wi a widden speen, the kitchen full o the sweet on page 87

4 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
ye hid been in the middle at speen-feedin saps til a crochley aa on page 94

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n she hid te fish it oot wi a speen. "Ah'm tellin ye ess, though, on page 22

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sookin on a siller speen on page 190

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
speen in o a jar o jam looks roon a
Jonsar Eck pit the speen o jam back in the jar, he tho
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
her Halloween neep wi a soup speen an gaitherin the scrapit daud
Minnie pit the speen doon on the rug an restit her
in grammar, an the rasp o the speen as it turned ower the yalla d
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ture bottle an a great muckle speen.
on a speen. Neist time it rained, Grace
nny gied him a coat hinger, a speen an some towe, an he wannert i
speen, a stick, an the tap o granny
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hve gotten yer knife, fork, speen an teaspeen an ahm nae givi(2018) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
in. A rare job. Wiz er a bint speen or twa as weel ?(2019) search twitter