Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spickin	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	18.7	23.6	21.1	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	60	46	14	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	4	2

Occurrences of spickin in Corpus

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Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
nae spickin pairt.) on page 14
Jean: Whit's the eese o me spickin then? on page 27

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
mair code-switchin - whiles spickin Scots, whiles spickin Inglis on page 9

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
isin at the maist o the Scots-spickin population is in the Wast o S on page 56

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
he claim at we are, efter aw, spickin Scots raither nor Inglis.
1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Ye glanced ahent ye. “You spickin tae me?”
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
hegither fae the snell cauld, spickin aboot thair plicht, an tryin
ot it. Neist mornin they were spickin aboot arrangements for a fune
ice, bit she kent that he wis spickin aboot her, an she didna like
. This wis his Captain he wis spickin aboot. “Iskander, for heive
. This wis his Captain he wis spickin aboot. “Iskander, for heive
38 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Billie: (Spickin wi an Indian accent) Good eve on page 40

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ke scunce tae the aal eat, an spickin in as crabbit a vyce as she c on page 10
(lattin on at the kittlin wes spickin.) "Her leefie gaed intil your on page 11
ily, "fan there onybody wirth spickin til." on page 25
rsel "Weel, there nae eese in spickin." The vyces didna Jyne in iss on page 38
"Weel, there nae eese you spickin about waakenin him up," said on page 58
Also on pages 66, 69, 71, 80, 82, 85, 99, 100
13 matches