A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speakan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0 9 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences70 6 1 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of speakan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ht iss mosst be e richt way o speakan till a moose: she hed never d on page 20
an aboot id while e Moose wis speakan, so at her idea o e tale wis on page 27
enads id puffed aweiy withoot speakan; but at last id unfolded ids on page 43
ntill e sky all e time he wis speakan, an iss Alice thoucht decided on page 55
an then nodded. "Id's no use speakan till id," she thoucht, "till on page 81

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Am knackered wae speakan, cookan and bakan on page 73

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