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The word 'spikin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spikinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.93513
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 262.1 2 2
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 84.2 19 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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 spikin in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
accent. We hiv a lovely way o spikin dats totally different fae sc (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
* in spikin an scrievin, in baith public
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Foo dist Doric spikin loon celebrate Halloween? Fin(2016)
Aa aat spikin aboot fash wi @Manuforti1968 (2020)

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
looked roon and saw ma didie spikin to a mannie cad Ian Gordon. I
1 matches

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
he didna believe a wird a wis spikin. She ca’d me a wee liar. Fi
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
i'first time I've catched ye spikin tae him on page 86
We wir spikin aboot i'spacie atween us aa, on page 134
Stanin spikin wi ma Unty, on page 136
I'mannie wi i'microphone is spikin perfectly lood on page 145
Spikin words o' wisdom, let it aleen on page 197

9 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
spikin she didnae ken she hid been l
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ssjournal fit kind o' bear yi spikin aboot? Pudsey? Paddington or (2015)
a' thon bleck Friday pish yer spikin' oan e' box? Aabidy kens it's(2015)

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
eaned oot fan ih patients wir spikin aboot gettin a 'jag' ! (2020) twitter link
ers spik ih Doric. Yon wifies spikin at ih hinner eyne o at wee vi (2022) twitter link
och 'mate'... Ah ken fit ah'm spikin aboot. Aat's fit ih Sassenach (2023) twitter link

@72redz1903 tweeted
ng loon, yiv nae idea fit yir spikin aboot (2020) twitter link
im happy birthday, 20 minutes spikin fitba made his day. (2020) twitter link
0 years ago. Okay, we’re nae spikin toon centre but the flight fa (2020) twitter link
penceSport Had the pleasure o spikin tae Stevie Marriot efter a gi (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
k gies me a awfy like row fur spikin' like that, he disnae think i on page 14
-lookin' chap fur aw yer posh spikin', an' ye kin see ma man'll no on page 18
think ye've whistled it up by spikin' aboot it. Ah winder if they' on page 22
the kirk in the middle o' his spikin', the next day he got the sti on page 33
aff me, aye spikin' aboot me ahent ma back tae h on page 36

5 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
they can see & hear a mannie spikin in SCOTS in oor parliament??? (2022) twitter link
ch as A luv the cockney wey o spikin it disnae hae a literary back (2022) twitter link
atter lads slanged me aff fir spikin an writin in Scots , so A tel (2022) twitter link
a wis sent tae the heidie fir spikin Scots in schuil. Answerin the (2022) twitter link

@fairpechtoot tweeted
f English' :-) The 'Oor Wai o Spikin' statue fae last year's bucke(2017)