A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spack in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
if da fock o Sannis spack in French, in Waas on page 19

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
a mind at whin I wis young we spack Shaetlan - we onnly needit d
ue at nearly aa Shaetlan fock spack - noo hit’s ‘dialect’;
da language at Shaetlan fock spack, noo hit’s da dialect at so
.W. Laesk. Dis is da wye at I spack whin I wis a bairn, da wye at
in Friesland i da laet 1800s spack aboot ‘That insufferable Fr
5 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
hid the ane back then) an she spack wi a lown, quate vyce. on page 27

1 matches

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