Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spens	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	3.1	3	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	8	6	2	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	5	2

Occurrences of spens in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And faddoms deep, Sir Patrick Spens Lies in a dwam o young leddie on page 29

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
aye aw in Scots, an thon maga spens mukkil maucht argiefiein owre on page 25

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ndy Hunter sings 'Sir Patrick Spens'. Makars spreid out in time f on page 54

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“O coorse, he spens a lot o his time wi the Wande
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ile the complainers thairsels spens that muckle on drink. The scr
rice o meal – but whan fowk spens mair on drink thay shuidna gi
2 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
He spens as much time at Balmoral Shee on page 15

1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
, Hepburn’s Green Briggade, Spens’s Division, Hamilton’s ai
1 matches