A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spire Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of spire in Corpus

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Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
But gin ye spire sae heich, myn weel, on page 50

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Sanct Hub’s, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
tap o Sanct John’s Kirk’s spire
fankled up inby the spire,
2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
cco aiblins hedna a saul coud spire sae heich; or aiblins wes jis
1 matches

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
o the trees, up past the kirk spire, an up tae the hivvens above. on page 118

1 matches

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