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Use in varieties of Scots

sparra Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 4.5 1.5 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences139 1 1 0 2 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of sparra in Corpus

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Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
times granny called them cock sparra's though. on page 70

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
A sparra or a braw wee sprug, on page 18

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
un wae a light coverin. A wee sparra catches ma attention, tenacio
1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
arm roond hur back. “Ma wee sparra.”
ettie loved bein callt ma wee sparra. God knows she’d the appeti
and ah never callt hur ma wee sparra again.
“Sparra,” ah said, and she looked u
Ah wis still callin hur sparra back then. Truth be told, ah
6 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
t o naewye... doon flew a wee sparra that landed on the tap o the
1 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
But wur cocky wee sparra he didna ken hoo, on page 70

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
sel aboot the lug fir cryin a sparra a speug at 5, didnae ken the (2020) search twitter