Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sparklin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sparklin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.5	15	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	18.6	3	2
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
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)	58.1	1	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)

Occurrences of sparklin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
'd be surprised." The wifie's sparklin fite teeth gleamed fae a face on page 81

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
berdeen: sinlicht bounces aff sparklin grey granite; feet clatter on on page 43

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d a fairm, er bonny broon een sparklin es she read the note. Mebbe e on page 41

1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Tales Fae The Doric Side - Kelpie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
ran sparklin wi meenlicht, on page 11
an glimmer licht was sparklin as on page 13

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Didnae see the frost sparklin fyte,
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
FC Thon loons golas are gie sparklin like, whau wis first tae ch(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
coffee table and TV unit are sparklin clean tae efter ah gave thum on page 143

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
nx, Farquhar, a lassie whause sparklin een an bonnie roun curve had on page 68

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The sparklin ' eyes,
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Jackie revealed her love o’ sparklin ’ wines. Hence the following
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
colour o bluid an embossed wi sparklin stars, an flicked tae a page
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ch gies it that crisp, fresh, sparklin quality. It has tae be said,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
eir wallies in aw their white sparklin glory... for, wait for it, ma on page 23

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
: the wee shap, whar we bocht sparklin spaicial (it wuz the wartim)
1 matches