A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spikkan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0 0 29.8 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences40 0 3 1 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of spikkan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ant fur them, noo that you're spikkan sense?" on page 47
fit day fur man or baest, no spikkan o wir digger. on page 64
e hunder pounds? Phew! Wir no spikkan pennies. No. The last that I on page 79

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
keen dat phones keen whit wir spikkan aboot da whole time but noo i (2020) twitter link