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The word 'speeder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speederOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21710
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 speeder in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
enmoncrieff No hard aboot yin speeder though. Mibbe no here aboots.(2020)

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Der wirds is dew apö da speeder's wub: on page 21

1 matches

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
lp oot. Muttontief cleared da speeder’s webs fae da röf an Snurt
1 matches

West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
on aboot th time a seen a wee speeder buildin a wab in th coarner a
met wae thon wee toatie baby speeder ae some sorts, aw black an he
only tae be met by a daft wee speeder on the flerr. Ah fell asleep
A muckle great speeder. Six or Seven feet lang, blac
4 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
'Inky pinky speeder, up the watier spoot, Doun ca on page 44

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
the warld like a muckle metal speeder. on page 116
ed yin end o it tae the metal speeder, and looked at her haundiwirk on page 118

2 matches

Briggs, Susi Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
There's an awfy big speeder livin in ma shed on page 12

2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t wi a muckle creepie crawlie speeder clingin ontae the back — it
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
chne wis jist a scootie bleck speeder, skitterin roond Athena’s s
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
er thocht o't as a name fir a speeder, grand. Wabster-scunner grand(2020)