A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spelled Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 5.7 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1311 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of spelled in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Nigel spelled it. on page 70
Amazinly, Prudence spelled it richt and wioot switherin. on page 140
ellochin, "The word "whit" is spelled W... H... I... T. Noo spell i on page 148
d o the inglestane tales, and spelled asleep, on page 178

4 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
assume that because a word is spelled the same as in Standard Engli on page 18
ic consistency such words are spelled with the 'nd', e.g. haund and on page 19

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
thinkin hou A wird should be spelled, A leuks for it in the SND an
Scots an Scottish English is spelled the same.
2 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Yet spelled are forest, sea an baist,
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@ashdouglasscot The lads spelled it Di, an it took me a wee wh(2019) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
t the word ‘standardise’ is spelled differently in British Engli(2019) search twitter

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
r weekend wis helja (mebbe no spelled richt) which is similar tae S

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
@little_pengelly It's spelled Wimmin!(2016) search twitter