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The word 'speer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6228
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
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) 116.3 2 1
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 speer 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.

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
back an bolted afore I could speer, on page 8

1 matches

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
Devil98 Ah’m been wantan tae speer whit ye thowt aboot Scots and (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
wid think so + what a lot ye speer Now you'll need an Executor a on page 15

2 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
y's a boy's" Thi Codlin's wer speer deep, a wis taken thim up thr on page 62

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Weel, speer at im fit's wrang. Ye'r entit on page 16

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
l ye?" Ah said, hauf-feart te Speer. on page 44
"Did ye speer aboot the Viagra?" on page 49
ye finished yer article?" Ah speer as she unnsers. on page 80

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah'm jist wirried some'dy'll speer fit I dee fir a livin? It's n on page 31
"Fin Ah phoned up te speer aboot tickets," said Stevie, on page 36
thing te myn is ess: afore ye speer somethin back, unnser the que on page 39

3 matches

Findlater, Mark , (no publisher recorded 2022) Doric - Troup, government
air trust in ee, tae spik and speer
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
SPEER ME FIT WIE on page 67
Speer i'polis on i' street on page 146
I'd speer ma freens tae come an see on page 184

6 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Micht speer the thing she'd see; on page 9
ehs o blak an white. He could speer sthrecht awa whut wuz the met on page 49

2 matches

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