| spades | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 4.7 | 15 | 13 |
| ORK - Orkney | |||
| SHD - Shetland | |||
| TON - Tonge | |||
| NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | 35.2 | 1 | 1 |
| NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
| MNA - Mid Northern A | |||
| MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
| SNO - South Northern | |||
| ABN - Aberdeen | |||
| DOR - General Northern | 4.4 | 1 | 1 |
| NEC - North East Central | |||
| SEC - (South) East Central | 2.6 | 1 | 1 |
| WCE - West Central | |||
| DUN - Dundee | 10.6 | 1 | 1 |
| EDN - Edinburgh | 6.3 | 1 | 1 |
| GLA - Glasgow | 10.9 | 2 | 2 |
| AYR - Ayrshire | 39.3 | 3 | 1 |
| LAL - General Central | 1.3 | 1 | 1 |
| SEA - South East (Borders) | 12.5 | 1 | 1 |
| SWE - South West (Galloway) | 13.9 | 1 | 1 |
| DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
| WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | |||
| CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) | 31.4 | 1 | 1 |
| BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) | |||
| SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) | |||
| BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast) | |||
| PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) | |||
| EUL - East Antrim (Larne) | 32.8 | 1 | 1 |
| GUL - General Ulster | |||
| SYN - Synthetic (no region) |
Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
is haun, which ur like fuckin spades, the cunt. Rough as saunpaper
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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Wi spades an shuils ower their shouders on page 53
s beat the rid-hot airn intae spades an shuils. on page 80
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