Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'speerits'

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Use in varieties of Scots

speerits	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.7	19	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	19.6	6	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	21	2	2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	24.2	2	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)	41.8	3	2
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 speerits 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
I come here, it aye lifts my speerits. I smiled as I passed da Flat on page 54

1 matches

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Michaelswood” lifted dir speerits .
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ty an pooer he commans e fool speerits, an oot they come." Sae e new on page 86
em att were sair made wi fool speerits cam till him an were cured, a on page 89
heir diseases, plagues an ill speerits an garrt mony blin see. Syne on page 91
been set lowss fae their fool speerits an ailmints: Mary ca'ed Magda on page 92
es feedin on e hillside, an e speerits priggit wi him tae lat them g on page 94
Also on pages 100
6 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"Efter yon ma speerits chynged." on page 98

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
dder cud cast a blicht on his speerits, hooiver, sae pleast was he t on page 30

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The victim o speerits (sae folk averred) Mair nor w on page 13

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
up an auld still an wis makin speerits , the basis o aa her potions.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
God bless ye.' He paused, his speerits raised faur eneuch for curios on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
Speerits o this nicht on page 24

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
nivver drank speerits . Ma faither drove his car oot
kan sense the praisence o the speerits ; o thaim focks thit yaised ta
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
heize wir speerits - on page 27
Ma speerits are heized bi the company Ah on page 73

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
uggsome mynds an muckle speerits, on page 76

1 matches