A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'speirins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speirinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus33.410714
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 24 18 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 56.2 4 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 1344.5 74 1

Occurrences of speirins in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
r the muckle global wars. The speirins o the Javan computers tho hid
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ntil its cradle, feart o mair speirins. Her need wes to win hame, aw
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
're no a meinit ower suin for speirins is comin in areddies an ae Sc
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
Airly speirins anent this document brocht a
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 58 - twa poems bi George Hardie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Hamilton, poetry
ti speirins on page 41

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
repone til daft an skunnersum speirins: Nae fears! ... We haena what on page 136
catioun). The faither, whause speirins apened the poem, it nou cums on page 138
il Thirlestane, whaur he maks speirins o Auld Beattie, wha begins ti on page 140

3 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
bar chairt in the coorse o my speirins intae early muisic in Scotlan
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
€™v learnt in the coorse o my speirins, the muisic produced here in
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ee prince, that speired monie speirins, wisna gleg tae hear whan I s on page 15
ntent, an lowse ye frae their speirins. They are like that. A bodie on page 20
ll an on, he had a wheen mair speirins, on page 48
interest, the geographer maks speirins anent the strecht-forritness on page 55
flusht mair. He didna answer speirins nane; but whan a bodie flushe on page 82
Also on pages 95
7 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Consultation Speirins
streichtforret job. There wis speirins aboot whit wey this commitmen
There tae speirins aboot whither or no onie addi
ommunities. There wull tae be speirins aboot whit this wad haud fae
Consultation Speirins
8 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
r a hantle o the maist common speirins anent thaim. Thanks tae muckl
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
tae consider mair subjective speirins sic as anent whan and whit fu
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
tae gie answer tae a puckle o speirins that continually arise ower S(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wae, wur born yonner. Frae ma speirins, whan ae callant,
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
'Greement. Quhan cairryin oot speirins we wur affen toul at hit on page 28
research an' speirins. Hit maun cum aa the leid ins on page 33

2 matches

DfC Press Offys Hargey sets oot Owersettin Hub, (Depairtment fur Commonities 2021) Ulster, government
Media speirins tae tha DfC Press Offys.
oot o oors sarvice fur media speirins atween six at nicht an echt i
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
d-coont axes aabodie tha same speirins aboot tha yin day- Tha Day o
shud fill oot tha heid-coont speirins foarm fur tha hale hoose.
thin, min that tha heid-coont speirins micht no get owreset in tha r
Ulstèr Scotch Hoosehaud Speirins Foarm help buik
Heid-coont 20an21: Hoosehaud Speirins Foarm help buik
74 matches

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