A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spiks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 1 24.1 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences192 16 0 1 0 0
Number of authors14 2 11 1

Occurrences of spiks in Corpus

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Central

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Elspeth Buchan spiks on page 62

1 matches

gov.scot Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots, (Scottish Government 2022) Central, government
sus shawit thit 57,275 bodies spiks Gaelic an thit 87,100 pit thi
1 matches

Doric

Philip, George Luikin Back, (Jas Gaesham 2008 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Doric, prose
care hame.As weel as that he spiks aboot indoor an outdoor hobbi on page 6

1 matches

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - My Faither's Fowk, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
jist een drap spiks looder, on page 39

1 matches

McBeath, Lorraine Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Quine at School, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Fit's her name? She niwer spiks. on page 54

1 matches

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
scnievtt in Doric. Hadean Eon spiks o thi period fan thi planets on page 83

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
she disna aye think afore she spiks an his a tendency te jist ope on page 58
n een. She's honest, prood an spiks in a braid Buchan tung. lv a on page 65

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"He spiks really great English, disn't on page 14

2 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
the angels o God. An faaivver spiks a wird conter till e Sin o Ma on page 102

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
na wint te sit aside Elsie fa spiks te folk at ina ere. on page 45

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An he nivir spiks tae naebiddy on page 145
He spiks like a toonser on page 180

2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
he 'consoomin fire' the Bible spiks o.' on page 91

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
odel in her eyes, the wye she spiks.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n @AlexSalmond gauns on TV an spiks tae the ither heids in braid (2014) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
son singin an aa. A lassie fa spiks Polish, Scots and English cam (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ferent tae me wi da wye at du spiks!(2021) search twitter