A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spakes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spakesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
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) 116.3 2 1
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) 90.8 5 1

Occurrences of spakes in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
ill abuin the Cabrach, an the spakes o the turbines will birl awa,
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Minister spakes his small yins on page 25
Spakes Irish love in Yankee tin - s on page 26

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
no be forgien. Oniebodie that spakes a wurd agin tha Sinn o Man wu on page 9
Sorra on yis whan aa fowk spakes weel o ye, for thair faithers on page 79
tha angels o God. An whaiver spakes a wurd agin tha Sinn o Man wu on page 91

5 matches

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