A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spennin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.5 5.1 13.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences2110 9 0 0 0 2
Number of authors6 1 4 1

Occurrences of spennin in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
tland’s SETI group fae 1999 spennin time on thair ain computers a
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
Preliminar; II – Owerance o spennin; III – Owerance o leetratur
• owerance o campaign spennin an gifts;
in owerance o the campaign an spennin, the Commission
the leemits on spennin in the time gien ower tae the
26. PPERA sets oot spennin leemits for referendums held
9 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
st nicht at hame; an, far fae spennin it amang freens, he was stuck on page 30

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
te bi spennin it wi you. Oh! An hiv ye noti on page 21
. It's aboot time ye stairtit spennin some o yer Siller. Ye canna t on page 29
yon Alice is ony eese fir is spennin Stanley's siller." on page 85

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e sure if it wis the thocht o spennin an evenin wi Ruth or no, bit on page 77
im hid aye gotten on weel bit spennin aa day, ivvery day wi her wis on page 87

2 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
"Ye’re spennin a’ wir Cooncil’s goud
1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ae hae canty comp’ny aifter spennin an oor or twa wi a carnaptiou
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
, an neither wis the thocht o spennin a rowth o years takkin medici
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
. £400 million o' aa visitor spennin in Norlin Airlan wus oan airt on page 63
e trips, wi external visitors spennin £731. The 2019 on page 65

2 matches

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