A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sperm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spermOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 sperm in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
said burned a special ile fae sperm whales that burned wi a white
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Sperm, seeds like burnin twists on page 118
On wings o the sperm on page 155

2 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ae his rivit heid, lik spillt sperm. An thon wis jist the stert, on page 14

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O eggs, o sperm in hunnerts angel-wise on page 34

1 matches

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