A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spakin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.9 2.5 0 0 0 0 119.5
Number of occurrences325 0 0 0 0 27
Number of authors8 3 5

Occurrences of spakin 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

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ill. Yit he sleikit awa wioot spakin anither wurd. on page 14

1 matches

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
bit chinge it fir oor Inglis spakin MSPs. Syne they dinna gie me
leid. They ca'ed us dolts fir spakin oor ain leid bit the daft gow
2 matches

Peffers, Bob Whit Aboot Ma Ceevil Richts?, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, poetry
Kiz Spakin Scots, bi law, wiz banned.
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@Lenniesaurus Ah've bin spakin Scots aa ma life, but wis tel(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
°Fer it'll no be you that's spakin, but tha Spirit o yer Faither on page 9

3 matches

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
days, Prince Charles would be spakin up for her; that hale "wie wo on page 46

1 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An spakin aboot glesses, on page 52

1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tak pride in yer ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2009) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
glish. What wud bae wrang wae spakin English in tha clessroom an U
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
vernonfox ! We need mair folk spakin the aul Ulster Scots: daicent (2014) twitter link
craturs on Twatter wha arenae spakin richt! (2014) twitter link
otslanguage hae a quare way o spakin - unnerstaun maist o it hooi (2014) twitter link
folk hae a quare funny way o spakin: an Ulster Scot cudnae unners (2015) twitter link
gien me a bare bawbee for the spakin o it! (2014) twitter link
and 16 other occurrences.

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