A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speiran Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0 1.5 59.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences70 1 6 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of speiran in Corpus

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Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Lek a hure speiran fur tred under the unmovan ni on page 111

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Or speiran aboot your insurance while yo on page 84

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tae leuk. But noo sheu's speiran the first body on page 8
deu this. Sheu swanders trou speiran at Gunnie's faimly, giean her on page 63

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Dinna daeve me wae thee speiran, bern. on page 70

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
an swanders trow speiran at Gunnie’s faimly,
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
Speiran at this fankle o quaistions g
1 matches

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