A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spikker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 4.1 10.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences158 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors13 7 6

Occurrences of spikker in Corpus

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Central

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
an meesick - he wis a gifted spikker at a wide variety o organisat on page 4

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
fae ma accent A'm no a native spikker - A cannae say the proper Ai
totally treevial tae a native spikker but fir me it wis a kinna bre
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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
I am absolutely proud tae be spikker o Doric. It really annoys me
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
kens hou mony times ony Scots spikker ye ken has had tae talk thems
1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
pouer to gie it, for a Scots spikker tae be their authentic self w
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wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
pen on wha happens tae be the spikker. Tae some it micht mean simpl
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@LairnScots tweeted
Selfie fae a North East Scots spikker the day! #Scots #ScotsEdu htt (2019) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
n a lad yappen oot o 'a' loud spikker, say's, ""We welcome thi Morr on page 40

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ssical meesic wis comin fae a spikker in the neuk o the room an the on page 82

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
r mi face fan Ah saa that the spikker wis neen ither than Herbie Mo on page 75

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Niver did ony lood-spikker blast oot a truer wird. Brian
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@AMaxwell54 tweeted
ht teuchter an a native Doric spikker. Ah dinna ae ken fit a Lallan (2022) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ine hearing that fae a Glesga spikker. Do ye ken if there’s been o(2020) search twitter

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