A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spairks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 4 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences98 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of spairks in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'hae fire on oor tongues and spairks in oor bellies and warlockry on page 10
could hae sworn he saw bricht spairks fliskin in the sworlin faem. on page 33
air and cam doon again. Then spairks cam fleein oot o its neb, bri on page 82

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
Spairks and steam came snocherin fae on page 31

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
ger realised that strikin twa spairks fae the tindel-box brocht the on page 40
Ya pipe. Yin spairk! Twa mair spairks! Three mair thegither! on page 47

3 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Sae, wi spairks fleein frae tha wheels, an th on page 5

1 matches

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