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The word 'spauk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spaukOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5253
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
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 178.4 5 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 363.4 20 1

Occurrences of spauk in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
ad in common wus tha wie they spauk. Noo we didnae know it as Uls
it wus jist tha wie ivrybuddy spauk an A grew up amang this, lear
ddy A knew in tha lower Airds spauk like that, even tha weans a s
e want tae hear this lenguage Spauk tha wie that it shud be
4 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
huttled richt cannily. As she spauk, she keeked up at tha femlie
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
s tha yin tha proaphit Isaiah spauk aboot, tellin: "Thair's a voi on page 3
fer tae bring aboot whut wus spauk throu tha proaphit Isaiah: "H on page 9
At thïs time, God spauk tae Jhone, tha sinn o Zechari on page 73
7Sae Jhone spauk tae tha thrang o fowk that cu on page 74
An Jesus spauk bak tae hïm an sayed, on page 75
Also on pages 76, 80, 82, 91, 104, 109, 111
20 matches

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