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The word 'speelin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speelinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.963
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 5.3 4 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of speelin in Corpus

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General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
nit, because there's somethin speelin up yer table,' and wi ae lood on page 21
'Speelin trees is whit they dae best,' on page 57

4 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
€™s lenth. Richtaway, Dan wus speelin tha tree an spraughlin on his
1 matches

General Ulster

Millar, Al Poortith Bono owersettin, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
is bit a pictur o badness speelin
1 matches

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