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The word 'speen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6208
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 speen in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
their weis heep's a different speen's an furk's an nyfe's, cus ei on page 40

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sie, pickin up a shiny silver speen. on page 17
ee metal dishie an sookin the speen. on page 18
otterin pink mass wi a widden speen, the kitchen full o the sweet on page 87

4 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
ye hid been in the middle at speen-feedin saps til a crochley aa on page 94

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n she hid te fish it oot wi a speen. "Ah'm tellin ye ess, though, on page 22

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
her Halloween neep wi a soup speen an gaitherin the scrapit daud
Minnie pit the speen doon on the rug an restit her
in grammar, an the rasp o the speen as it turned ower the yalla d
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ture bottle an a great muckle speen.
on a speen. Neist time it rained, Grace
nny gied him a coat hinger, a speen an some towe, an he wannert i
speen, a stick, an the tap o granny
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
h’ve gotten yer knife, fork, speen an teaspeen an ah’m nae givi(2018)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sookin on a siller speen on page 190

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
speen in o a jar o jam looks roon a
Jonsar Eck pit the speen o jam back in the jar, he tho
2 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
in. A rare job. Wiz er a bint speen or twa as weel ?(2019)

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