Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sparky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sparky	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.9	6	4
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	1
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 sparky 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.

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DonsBarca Aht's Sparky rates.??(2020)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Then up spoke an Eskimo, sparky an spruce,
1 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
A sparky fay Partick sade it's impossi
Puddles wur jumpin aroond the sparky 's feet
2 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ken where ah’d be wi’oot Sparky noo.’
Ye’ve gat a ghost dug callt Sparky ?’
2 matches