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The word 'speugs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
speugsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9137
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 17.1 7 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
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 speugs 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.

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Post-Its, (sandyfleming.org 2005) Central - East Lothian, poetry
Speugs chirms an cheepers,
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
. The dirdum fleggit awaw the speugs, an the hens
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Speugs' Petition
Come, aw wee birds an fellow-speugs,
O flocks o freenly speugs.
Yer speugs wull aw be deid.
but whit the speugs fail tae devour
5 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Wee speugs caperin happy at their hands. on page 98

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e wee burdies I see here, the speugs an stuckies an soarin whaups, on page 21
me or ither, had belanged tae speugs, stuckies, corbies, craws, on page 23

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the wunter speugs lilt on frae morn til nicht. on page 40

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
dyke to lour at me, a fug of speugs on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
dyke to lour at me, a fug of speugs
1 matches

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