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The word 'spellins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spellinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus22.17219
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 88.7 35 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 35.8 27 10
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) 31.4 1 1
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 spellins in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Wi'd hae the spellins aa agreet, on page 5

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
farrant words an auld farrant spellins sic as ye(the), olde, shoppe
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
s wis scomfished ablo English spellins, isna a guid idea, an micht a
aa is hou consistent Hunter's spellins is. Consistency o spellin is
"wud" an "wid" as alternative spellins, but "wuid" shouldna be thare
pellin guides: they baith gie spellins that's aathegither wrang.
aa throu the langage bi uizin spellins that's no ony haurder than th
30 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
e "macaroni" uphaud their ain spellins). Obviously wi us no writin a
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
makin allowance for the orra spellins.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
haed gien up on the variable spellins yaised in Scots an haed adopt
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
een o thaim or the noo an the spellins haes been chynged a wee bit s
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'Spellins,' Miss Honey said. "Try tae m on page 130

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
cal wirds melled wi Mid Scots spellins gies ye a chance ti deiffer a on page 11

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ice ah've used standart Scots spellins where sich spellins exist ("d on page vi

4 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
three rum and cokes deep. But spellins subjective, eh? on page 4

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
alects, registers, souchs and spellins are acceptable as are aa subj on page 8

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
t tae retrieve really bizarre spellins. The search is limitit tae sp on page 17

2 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
urd is a noun an haes sindrie spellins: law-borowis, law-borrowis, l on page 24

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
hit's a heffalump, whaur the spellins o the sindrie bits an the thi on page 4

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
This is whit for tradeitional spellins sic as "ui" haes been kep. Ah on page 56

3 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ogue, it’s naitural ti uise spellins at shaws pronunciations – s
ger nor cot. Sae conservative spellins like shop an got – in thir
ional strynds, an whither the spellins at reflects thir strynds is l
3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e northart spreid o i-digraph spellins frae Norther Middle Inglis. S
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
The motivations for thae new spellins is, as ye wad expect, raivelt
seems tae be an ettle tae mak spellins mair representative o the scr
riation, jist twa three feiht spellins, that micht or micht no indic
r the influence o the various spellins o the past tense (facht, fawc
o the scrievers yaissin thae spellins are contributors tae Lallans,
5 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
their ain spellins,
stick tae traditional spellins.
common spellins
haunfae o spellins,
single spellins
5 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
o the same DNA, includin mony spellins. In the desperation tae asser
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ootwith' an this is yin o the spellins @ScotsDictionars but if ye wa (2020) twitter link
Munro Hope ye enjoyed it! The spellins are taen fae here: https://t. (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ionaries ayshely gie multiple spellins probably because there is nae(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
owre whit's the richt spellins, on page 14

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
d in this book's based on the spellins that ir maistly used bae nati on page vi

1 matches

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