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The word 'spukken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spukkenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1102
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 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)
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 spukken in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
in aa neuks o life, nae jist spukken in the hame, the wey it's mai
r-East as it is the ilkae-day spukken leid an for cultural heirskip
s Doric, in baith scrieved an spukken forms, tae be a valid means o
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
her. Minnie's Ma an Da hidna spukken twa wirds tae ain anither, ex
Neither o them hid spukken twa wirds tae Minnie. Yon wis
wad hae leuch at her if she'd spukken afore them as she spakk fin s
3 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
His faither hid nivver spukken tae him like this afore. Norm
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
oto ma moo, they bein English spukken an my leid bein Doric. And th on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
aelic, side bi side, an Latin spukken bi the priest
Spukken bi fermer, fisher, baillie, o
2 matches

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