A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speckled Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 3 9.9 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences51 2 1 0 0 1
Number of authors5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of speckled in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
l blue, licht broon, green an speckled egg tae admire. The eggs were on page 23

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r an yallaed wi time; a roost-speckled tin aat held ony important pa on page 79

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
cam tae catch the speckled troot that swam in the derk l
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
he cooked product has a bonny speckled appearance, like the breist o
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hessian secks floatin intae a speckled mist as the pigs stared at yi on page 31

1 matches

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