A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'speikers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speikersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.9467
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 48.8 20 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 28.9 22 3
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 speikers in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
socie, Saltire Society, Scots Speikers Curn Glesca, Aiberdeen Univai
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
rebel medium) an ither Scots speikers (wha wadna relate the wye the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
The Scots Speikers Curn, Glesca.
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West Central

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
ere is ower 1.5 million Scots speikers.
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Glasgow

Durie, Nick A Scots Letter, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Glasgow, prose
nane o it gets til the feck o speikers kis wur meidie haes gang roon
um; Scots Leid Associe; Scots speikers curn web Etc. Thon sites are
whe'er ye ken but on the Scot Speikers Curn web - ye'll get thon wa
3 matches

General Central

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Efter thon come twa native speikers o Scots - Gearie himsel read on page 46

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
English. Forby, whaur English speikers pronoonce Scots wirds that ky
Kinloch Rannoch’; English speikers pronoonce these as ‘k’. (
SSE (and Scots) speikers tend tae aspirate wh-wirds, s
e case o the first group, SSE speikers are maistly unawaurs that the
Scots and English means that speikers o baith can Scotticise or Ang
6 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
kythes as ane that non-Scots speikers in Scotland will tak intae th
seen reference, fae non-Scots speikers, tae a ‘high heejun’ or
2 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
s?” hus sections oan; Scots Speikers, Scots History, Scots Poetry,
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
o Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Speikers o P-Celtic and Q-Celtic leids
at this soond is gey easy fur speikers o Scots, Gaelic and Scottish
lish tae mak, whauras English speikers elsewhaur are no likely tae h
Gaelic speikers hae nae bother at aw wi prono
it is nae trauchle fur Scots speikers tae pronoonce the “ch” so
11 matches

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