A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

specks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of specks in Corpus

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Central

Grace, Reyzl Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
A watch the swimmin specks like fishes, wishin on page 6

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
baws climbed tae they became specks in the cloodless Perjinkian s on page 19

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
d them till they were but wee specks in the faur distance ower Gue on page 17

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
the wee path, specks a broon leaves under the tree
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
y folk I see nooadays are wee specks high up in the sky, floating
1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Larks chorus, peedie specks hoveran high above. on page 16

1 matches

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