Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spence'

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Use in varieties of Scots

spence	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9.9	33	12
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern	325.5	2	1
ABN - Aberdeen	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	15.5	6	1
WCE - West Central	39.9	9	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	24.8	4	1
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	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	28.4	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spence 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.

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Tae young Spence's spiteful tune on page 151

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
folk at wis githered roon Eck Spence, a local cooncillor. on page 32
boot te happen fin Cooncillor Spence leent forrit an said te ma we on page 33

3 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
Iain Crichton Smith and Alan Spence . Murray, whiles aided by poet
e laist completed wis wi Alan Spence in 2000.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
he chappit on the door o the spence an birsit it tee. The room wa on page 30

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
haes been catched bi James P. Spence , poet an a freelance storytel
e at the hinneren o the buik, Spence writes aboot his oncome tae t
d hiv haed a braid vocabular. Spence 's owersettin haes been weel t
James P Spence wis awardit an SAC grant in 2
© James Spence .
6 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n even oor Drama teacher Mizz Spence had gied us two scenes on page 31
in it. Oor Drama teacher Mizz Spence who's a pure mad hippy that w on page 125
doon the front next tae Mizz Spence. He looked dead different fae on page 126
ether cause ae Tommy, an Mizz Spence went an wrote them aw up on t on page 128
e September Weekend when Mizz Spence went aff on Maternity Leave, on page 169

9 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
he set i the ingil neuk o the spence, an drunk rumb an wattir verr on page 4
ae ma mither, an gaed ben the spence ti smeik a pype ontil hiz hor on page 6

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
r cauld nichts. The aye-bydin spence wes repraisentit bi kakes o j on page 5

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
sae Ah teuk ma beuks tae his spence on page 48

1 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ll. Cam Kennedy, tr. James P. Spence, Waverley Books, New Lanark, on page 119
's no anely Grant, Kennedy an Spence wha ar acquant wi on page 120

3 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ah might find an audio file o Spence's 'Sailmaker'? Were there ony(2016)

@LairnScots tweeted
tae John Burns' talk oan Alan Spence's play 'Sailmaker' fae @scotl (2018) twitter link

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Inglis it was Albert Spence , an Dickie Simpson he took pa
1 matches