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The word 'spikken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spikkenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5167
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
DOR - General Northern 31 7 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 spikken in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
fit lang, an eit thi tyme am spikken aboot she belanged tae ma aul on page 46
Raachil an thi Chief hid been spikken tae eiss Angleesh lad, eit th on page 60
wisna Angleesh, eit hee weis spikken, "Aat's qweer," a thocht, eit on page 62

4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Sorry nae tae hiv spikken fur a wikk, ah hiv been helpi(2019)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
I mind Grandfare and noo yir spikken...Vidjo Games. My favourite e(2019)

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wye: nae b'tellin a lee but b'spikken e trowth. on page 55

1 matches

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
this is Meiklewartle we’re spikken aboot.
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
i_Leith @MagsTaylorish Are ye spikken bull here(2020)
Spikken aboot gan awa for the wikend (2020)
@HopepunkQ Charles Murray spikken(2020)
@LeftPeggers Jist been spikken aboot gan oot slates are look(2020)
@bj2029 Better spikken ti the Beechgrove folk min(2020)
and 2 other occurrences.

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r wee gairden. I can mind her spikken aboot the ‘national loaf’
1 matches

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