A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spiders Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 6 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences83 4 1 0 0 0
Number of authors8 3 4 1

Occurrences of spiders in Corpus

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Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
squad !! Question fir aw you 'Spiders'. When & who wis the last 'Sp (2022) twitter link

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
y likes wasps, no even hungry spiders. ??????(2020) search twitter

@raiphsays tweeted
ke em bit a cannae haud hoose spiders or be in a room wae wan!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
in jam, er eyelashes war like spiders' legs an she'd great lang spi on page 80

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
lf a box o matches lookin for spiders afore ye sat doon. Ye could w on page 75

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@Meldrum04 Leave the spiders be n they will sort oot the f(2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
it was covered in black widow spiders...the females are brown and b (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
r boots come oot o storage - spiders seek new haunts tae forage. P on page 75

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