A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speculate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of speculate 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
And speculate awey for aw ye's want on page 107

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ir Maw. Nouadays, Ah can only speculate whit's happenin tae Glesca di on page 9

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
A wheen fowk haes speculate that ootrels micht be ahin mo
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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
h cannae help bit see bit – speculate - as if each screen is aatime
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
nough economics if ye ask me. Speculate tae accumulate, know whit ah
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Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
of gambles we have tae take, speculate and sell on at some point. Th (2022) twitter link