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The word 'speck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6128
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 speck in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
tae sea, till hid wis juist a speck on the water.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
avie an flickit an imaaginary speck o stew fae the airm o ane o y on page 30

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
u. Fit wye div ye glower at e speck in yer freen's ee, bit yet ca on page 14
see a hantle better tae tak e speck oot o yer freen's ee. on page 15
nie. Fit wye div ye leuk at e speck o saadist i yer brither's ee on page 90

4 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
en how I can still manage tae speck never mind twit or is that tw(2019)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
thick reek o the howff. Each speck seemed alive. on page 73

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
carefully gathered every last speck in a paper towel. Next he wen on page 43
d even though there wisna yin speck o grain on it. Nane that I co on page 72

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
wis white, and there wisnae a speck o stoor onywhaur. Fae the cei on page 142

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ntil Judge Strauss wis jist a speck in the dairkness, and it seem on page 162

1 matches

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