Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spree	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.7	1.5	7.5	0	23.2	0	0
Number of occurrences	12	3	5	0	4	0	0
Number of authors	9	3	2		4

Occurrences of spree in Corpus

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Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
es, it’s an aw-roond killin spree wi man, their maist deidly pr
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Tae haud a Yuletide spree
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
viewed - a wis oan a shoppin spree lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Dull an grey, midges on the spree,
Sultry at nicht, midges on a spree.
2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Ae thing sure midges on o a spree.
n for cover the midge is on a spree.
2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@darling_silver I've got a spree voucher fer Inversnecky up th(2017) search twitter

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
elieve me, but hit truly is a spree on page 102

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Hae a spree wi dem dat's laachin. on page 163

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
boat on da sea and hae a gret spree. Lucky it's #SMUHA http://t.c(2015) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
? youve no really been on a spree until someen plays Wagon Whee(2019) search twitter