Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spliff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

spliff	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	4
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	15.3	6	2
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)	13.9	1	1
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 spliff in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n tae feel the effects ae his spliff. on page 64
oot sends the almost prepared spliff oantae the laminated flair. A on page 131
o and he goes tae pasg me the spliff but ah jist wave him awey. An on page 132

4 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Rastaman smokin an oversized spliff or some bland mainstream regg
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Rollin a nice tight cone ae a spliff and identifyin a lowlife fae
1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
I remember it well. My first spliff. A wee chynge fae a bottle o (2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
echt, ten yills, ten mauts, a spliff then pecht. Thir days Ah'm no on page 77

1 matches