A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spiert Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9 4.8 28.8 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences289 18 0 0 1 0
Number of authors13 6 6 1

Occurrences of spiert in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
it time is't thair boays?' he spiert o the nearesthaund boozers. on page 27

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
a cupple o words for Rosie?" spiert Trev. on page 79
he ratton doon tae the burn?" spiert Trev. on page 83

2 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
is meeda, guid fowk?" the cat spiert. on page 42

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
aa this aboot, Mr. Craig?" he spiert cannily. on page 17

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
"Whit's that onywey?" Alan spiert. on page 64

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
aggit, but crawed, spiered or spiert, dumfoundered or dumbfoundert
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
r first offence an the bailie spiert, "Whit tempted ye tae dae sic
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
at ye're chaain awa at, man?' spiert Jamie. on page 42

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
Cud he eese a hurl, spiert Zander. He was heidin for Wes on page 30

1 matches

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
even a glance. The blue loon spiert Blair a few questions - dae on page 73

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
nt tae the minister's wife an spiert gin she haed been awaar o ony on page 27

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
eir faces. "Foo much langer?" spiert Jeems. "We're jist aboot ther on page 87

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
st tae chynge e subjeck; an A spiert fat was happenin at e kirk. on page 88
ly the ull-deer that deet?' A spiert. on page 90

2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
oo terrible she was feelin. A spiert gin she wintit me tae pray wi
the story, than, Fergie?’ A spiert at laist.
2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
An gin we leuch, spiert gin we wis A-meesed
1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
bout Scots afore this, but he spiert us gin A wuid ging doun tae E
wa weys. Thousans o fowk were spiert bi telephone anent their use
unnerstand fit they’d been spiert. Baith times wes on the Bucha
native Buchan dialect. Fan A spiert gin this wes fitwey she’d n
n the big ane; the government spiert anent Scots ability on the ce
6 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
and spiert whit kept him sae quiet
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n-sic in the wids yestreen, A spiert at wee kittie, the thoumie wr (2020) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
wk thirsels, wis grand tae be spiert tae tak pairt an pit furrit a(2020) search twitter