A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0.5 9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences71 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of speers in Corpus

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Central

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
for a four hooses. If onyane speers hoo they ca'ed it a sheugh, a
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
reunion, though - if onybody speers foo ye've bin keepin, jist sa on page 69

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, or are you all right here?" speers a carer, ariddy parkin ma in on page 46
"Comfy, Lily?" speers ane o the quines es she tucks on page 47

2 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Somebody speers ye, ye answer gie slowly on page 129

1 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
possible y. The office wifie speers ‘im, "Yi thinkin lang for y
Callum checks his baggie and speers his mam if she's teen oot his
2 matches

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