A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spines'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spinesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spines in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
stickleback net, ischial spines - on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ndrin if dis is de wird wi de spines apo dem? (brug = mossy or hea(2020)

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
amed as a chill went up their spines.
1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
nt amoont o Scots wark rubbin spines wi them, helpin tae develop S
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
frae spines on page 38

1 matches

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