A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spectral Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0.5 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences31 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of spectral in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
As yin banshee caws tae its spectral curse o a luver, on page 29

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
sheu wirked the spectral refractors, prismatic acceler on page 15

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
sae sudden ower my sight, The spectral forms come glamin', A shiver (2018) twitter link