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Use in varieties of Scots

speeder Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 6.7 0 9.9 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1713 0 1 2 1 0
Number of authors10 6 1 2 1

Occurrences of speeder in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
'Inky pinky speeder, up the watier spoot, Doun ca on page 44

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
the warld like a muckle metal speeder. on page 116
ed yin end o it tae the metal speeder, and looked at her haundiwirk on page 118

2 matches

Briggs, Susi Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
There's an awfy big speeder livin in ma shed on page 12

2 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
on aboot th time a seen a wee speeder buildin a wab in th coarner a
met wae thon wee toatie baby speeder ae some sorts, aw black an he
only tae be met by a daft wee speeder on the flerr. Ah fell asleep
A muckle great speeder. Six or Seven feet lang, blac
4 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t wi a muckle creepie crawlie speeder clingin ontae the back — it
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
chne wis jist a scootie bleck speeder, skitterin roond Athena’s s
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
enmoncrieff No hard aboot yin speeder though. Mibbe no here aboots.(2020) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Der wirds is dew apö da speeder's wub: on page 21

1 matches

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
lp oot. Muttontief cleared da speeder’s webs fae da röf an Snurt
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
er thocht o't as a name fir a speeder, grand. Wabster-scunner grand(2020) search twitter