A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spokken Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.7 0.5 1.5 29.8 244.1 0 0
Number of occurrences471 1 3 42 0 0
Number of authors10 1 1 2 6

Occurrences of spokken in Corpus

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Central

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
usly as it wad be seen tae be spokken by a “scruff”. Mair recen
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
dit? Forbye, the maan sud hae spokken for himsel an nae haen wirds
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Sheu isno spokken tae Astrid fae the dance twa on page 146

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Blether, a phenomenon that's spokken aboot in Orkney when an Islan on page 14

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ny differ weys ilk yaer. As a spokken vernaclar, Scots haads on, wi
1 matches

Shetland

Mainland, Jim Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
d his tongue whin he could've spokken, on page 28

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
hetland Scots, a kind o Scots spokken in Shetland at's been influen on page V
, juist da sam as if shö wis spokken an axed him; an athin anidder on page 52
ey said, as if shö wis never spokken, "if we hed da door atween wi on page 58
. "I daar say du's never even spokken ta Time!" on page 71
Whit for?" said da een at wis spokken first. on page 78

5 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
it whit's past. I da Loard am spokken.' Da Loard sends da sun be da on page 65
sho's dön dis day 'll aye be spokken aboot.' on page 111
, an bliss her, sho's come an spokken tae me an sho's dön me a poo on page 117

3 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wis seeven. Chloe is nivver spokken aboot him, bit I gaddered fae on page 10
"It's just da straight spokken wye a da fokk whaar shü come on page 14
nearly seeventy year at I wis spokken tae a livin sowel aboot what on page 20
interrupted wi a smile, "He's spokken aboot mairryin noo an again, on page 50
ar aald mind, at ah'm nivwver spokken aboot it tae a livin sowel ti on page 56

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Shaetlan is da language spokken alang wi English in Shetland, on page 7
stic repression o da language spokken bi da maist fokk. An dat is l on page 9
en times. Dat wye da language spokken ithin Shetland is ey bidden f on page 10
dialect", an English is affen spokken aboot as bein "proper" or "ri on page 12
cts: da Kentish Aald English (spokken bi da descendants o da Jutish on page 14
Also on pages 15, 20, 22, 50, 51, 56, 58, 61, 63, 65, 80, 97
26 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
roblem o da tension atween da spokken an da written wird can never
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Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
dom ony doot aboot wha's bein spokken aboot. Laek, if John is athin

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