A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speirits Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 5.1 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1010 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 5

Occurrences of speirits in Corpus

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Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
fur naewan listens tae the speirits on page 24

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
comin o the speirits, see, monie as the clouds on page 21
corps, see, on life are their speirits on page 31
rneys, an there's the names o speirits or gods forbye, like the Cail on page 33

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
coal blek naigs, aw muntit bi speirits, an tho his awn beiss wes the on page 139

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
m a waucht ti kittil up thair speirits. Seeminlie, he haes anelie te
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
e speired at lest. Mirren’s speirits
1 matches

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y colour an licht tae gie the speirits a wee heize up - a wattergaw(2020) search twitter

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