A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'speirars'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speirarsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.581
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 10.7 8 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of speirars in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Academic speirars at the Versity o Glesca haes on page 51

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ert a stoushie amang sceintic speirars whan a puckle claimed that ch
For a lang time scientific speirars didna ken hoo the rings haed
t is a tickler for scientific speirars that Titan haes sae muckle me
ore. Tae the fasht scientific speirars an ithers, fowk knottin thair
he Voyager 2 prog, scientific speirars cuidna wirk oot whit wey the
6 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
arld. Insteid the’r a wheen speirars, steidit in sindry institutes
1 matches

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