A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spawn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0.5 0 0 5.8 0 13.3
Number of occurrences51 0 0 1 0 3
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of spawn in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he Ayr an Greenock Watter tae spawn, he aye managed tae tak a fis on page 56

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
erin in da loch tae laeve dir spawn. For me hit’s a novelty, de
1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Tae spawn and gie the wheel o life anit on page 47

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
sky. An that’s for why frog spawn is knowed aboot these pairts
green watter, slatherin frog spawn ower ma airms. Swift-like, ah
2 matches

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