A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'speid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
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 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
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) 174.4 3 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 speid in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
eikin lum an we'r aye at Deil speid the leears! Ai, wae's me for on page 45
a wee whilie, kis A canna mak speid. on page 48

2 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
or his radgieness. He can cum speid wi his ettils bi makkin a wax on page 139

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Wi pooerfu speid faa oan mae face on page 17
Thein skim alang wi mighty speid on page 32

2 matches

Campbell, Robert Yarns 3 - Brae / Sheugh / Cannae / Piece, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, poetry
Abate tha speid,
1 matches

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