A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spills Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 1.5 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences73 1 1 0 2 0
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of spills in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
stream doon ma cheeks. Guile spills aff ma tongue. Ah tell hur Sa on page 47

1 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Maun we mak new wirds fir a chyngin warld?, (The National 2020) Central, newspaper
oncepts – a stereotype that spills ower tae the near-universal j
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ursts open an a fuckin rammie spills oot intae the car park. Ronni
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
bleezing laddie aff the boats spills his pint o'er em(2016) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
whar the reed threed spills oot on page 7

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Where oot a pipe he spills on page 19
ere doon the Plum their water spills on page 26

2 matches

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