A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spakes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 0.5 0 0 0 0 27.1
Number of occurrences81 0 0 0 0 7
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of spakes in Corpus

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Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
ill abuin the Cabrach, an the spakes o the turbines will birl awa,
1 matches

Ulster

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Minister spakes his small yins on page 25
Spakes Irish love in Yankee tin - s on page 26

2 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
no be forgien. Oniebodie that spakes a wurd agin tha Sinn o Man wu on page 9
Sorra on yis whan aa fowk spakes weel o ye, for thair faithers on page 79
tha angels o God. An whaiver spakes a wurd agin tha Sinn o Man wu on page 91

5 matches

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