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Use in varieties of Scots

spoon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words18.1 20 3 19.9 34.9 31 26.6
Number of occurrences5839 2 2 6 3 6
Number of authors23 12 2 1 1 3 4

Occurrences of spoon in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ndly permitirt tae pockle the spoon: on page 104

1 matches

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
five letter word for a large spoon?' As soon as the presenter fi on page 35

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Yin spoon,' she said. 'And nae milk.' on page 2
o tea wi a teabag. He pit yin spoon o sugar in it and nae milk. H on page 3
e howked it aw oot wi an auld spoon and plowped it intae the pan. on page 24
s yin. He foond a lang widden spoon in a kitchen drawer and stert on page 32
the mixter wi the lang widden spoon. Jings-bings! It wis aw broon on page 35
Also on pages 37, 38, 39, 47, 52, 53, 80, 81, 86, 90, 92
23 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
is Mammy wis born wi a silver spoon in hur mooth, and she wis too on page 17

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
Oh'", and syne cleeked at the spoon again jist as it wis disappea on page 32

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
on the table wi her parritch spoon. Violet and Klaus brak aff fa on page 33
dundert on a pot wi a widden spoon, singin a wee sang she had co on page 44
o him, but, she picked up her spoon in her richt haund and stairt on page 72

3 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ah look up. A nurse is spoon-feedin one o the old women. G on page 92

1 matches

White, Ian Nimmo Lallans 73 - Whit credit crunch, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
in a sma spoon : Wheh wud Ah on page 51

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Gruggie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
e a Junky's syringe loaded wi spoon-het venom, on page 74

1 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
bby aul chrome-platit slottit-spoon
1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
ll be busy poking ma een wi a spoon(2018) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Big Soup Pot, the Big servin Spoon. Ah've heard we're the ONLY c(2020) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ter - aw ye need is a widden spoon! ;-) Scots has aye been in ou(2016) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Scotlandteam wooden spoon in the 6 nations at this rate (2020) twitter link
s well - time the born wae a spoon in there mouth learned to ada (2021) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
At I stole frae a loon (Sic a spoon) on page 177

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
kindly permitted till poket e spoon: on page 102

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ootside the greasy spoon, on page 5

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
oan the greasy spoon grundhog day café on page 12

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
she axed, haadin up wir soup spoon. “Hit’s no joost ony lade
l, dere’s a story ahint dis spoon,” she said.
aid reckin for da silver soup spoon.
ockit in his lugs wi wir soup spoon?”
ll niver preeve soup fae yon spoon agaen,” announced Snurtysle
5 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
elt wis da history o her soup spoon? Whit a sook in we aa got whe
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ndly permitted tae poochle th spoon: on page 104

1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
ad o shite. Fuckin aboot wi a spoon and birlling it aboot on yir (2019) search twitter

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
sed snob with a muckle silver spoon up his erse! ????(2020) search twitter

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
se tay we hae bocht", ir "Yin spoon fur ivery boadie, dochter, *A on page 13
Wi pumpie flesk, taybag an spoon, T'wud gar ye grue. on page 14

2 matches

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
An tha dish rin awa wae tha spoon. on page 4

1 matches

NewtonLass Tay, (newtonlass.blogspot.com 2011) Ulster - Newtownards, poetry
“Yin spoon fur ivery boadie, dochter,
Wi pumpie flesk, taybag an spoon,
2 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
them oot the pot with the big spoon, dumped butter in it too?????(2020) search twitter

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