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The word 'sparks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sparksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71917
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 5
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sparks in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
sparks flyan, jumpan tae start on page 56

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
f - fire an a great shooer o sparks fleein oota his spaver. on page 15

1 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Fae his hooves thi sparks fair flew, on page 17

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
e prentice brickies, spreids, sparks etc. Ane o the laddies maun h on page 86

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae these two dafties, Craig sparks up the joint and only efter a on page 131

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
e kept a ee on the diminishin sparks o rid, "but life gauns on." on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
kept a ee on the dimínishin sparks o rid, "but life gauns on."
1 matches

Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
the hammer hits the stane an sparks
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
t least theyll provide plenty sparks unlike your radio station tha (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
haunds sterted raxin oot like sparks towards the cigar. 'Move! she on page 205
as if the sparks were birlin roond inside her on page 206

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e aw the clothes fur Marks an Sparks. See aw yir 'Tregijo jumpers on page 52

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
eivin the shelves o Marks and Sparks fir aa kin o growthie scran on page 110

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Thi ane that sparks aff chemistry, on page 80

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
y - that wasn’t just a few sparks. And nobody but Derriakin and
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
y the lighter in his hauns an sparks his snout an ah put the light
1 matches

General Central

@weenell3 tweeted
@DavyGavin1 @aquiania Sparks .... noo that's a blast fae t (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The sizzling logs, the sparks that fly on page 39

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
A bricht licht lowed wi sparks o fire. on page 65

1 matches

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