A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'speiker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speikerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5155
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 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 speiker in Corpus

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West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
an Gaelic. A 'learned' Gaelic speiker, he hus bin crowned Bard at t on page 127

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
l), ir described. The current speiker tells us o a letter he haes g
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Ye're a gey puir speiker," said the King. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
l in the middle, whaur an SSE speiker will pronoonce it wi a rhotic
r conscious choice by the SSE speiker. This group is like as no tae
Tak tent that, whan a speiker o SSE, but no Scots, yaises s
ckle the ae wey as an English speiker micht yaise the French phrase
fu fur tae descrieve whit the speiker is daein. This is acause sicl
5 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ad is porridge”), the Scots speiker willnae miss a beat in owerse
sh equivalent, fur the Gaelic speiker, owersettin it tae cugallach
tforrit fur a Scots or Gaelic speiker tae flit atween The Broch and
is less straichtforrit fur a speiker o English whae hasnae maister
nae doot that, fur the Scots speiker learnin the Gaelic, or the Ga
6 matches

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The Hinmaist Speiker on page 175

1 matches

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