A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spikken Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0.5 22.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences161 15 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 1 6

Occurrences of spikken in Corpus

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Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r wee gairden. I can mind her spikken aboot the ‘national loaf’
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wye: nae b'tellin a lee but b'spikken e trowth. on page 55

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
fit lang, an eit thi tyme am spikken aboot she belanged tae ma aul on page 46
Raachil an thi Chief hid been spikken tae eiss Angleesh lad, eit th on page 60
wisna Angleesh, eit hee weis spikken, "Aat's qweer," a thocht, eit on page 62

4 matches

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
this is Meiklewartle we’re spikken aboot.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Sorry nae tae hiv spikken fur a wikk, ah hiv been helpi(2019) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
I mind Grandfare and noo yir spikken...Vidjo Games. My favourite e(2019) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
i_Leith @MagsTaylorish Are ye spikken bull here(2020) search twitter
Spikken aboot gan awa for the wikend (2020) search twitter
@HopepunkQ Charles Murray spikken(2020) search twitter
@LeftPeggers Jist been spikken aboot gan oot slates are look(2020) search twitter
@bj2029 Better spikken ti the Beechgrove folk min(2020) search twitter
and 2 other occurrences.

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