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Use in varieties of Scots

spint Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 0.5 34.7 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences241 23 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 1 10

Occurrences of spint in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Strachan, Shane Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
for hauf his life is spint on page 9

1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
r spikkin; an, as Zander haed spint gey near the hale day on his on page 30

2 matches

Stewart, Del Tales Fae The Doric Side - Haudagain, 8:12 am, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
foo we got tae work or spint the skweel run. on page 86

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
wee aw thi laad's aboord. Hee spint monnie a coorse stormy nicht on page 7
run oot, bicuss theiy weis aw spint on drink. Fyle a weis soberen on page 31

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it the thocht o fit Joyce hid spint oan new claes: plastic sheen on page 40
* Ronnie spint the neest twa days sittin asi on page 52
l at the Maan o the Hoose hid spint twa hale wik-ens biggin. It's on page 63
twa coats o pint. He'd nivver spint a shillin fin a penny wid hiv on page 74
fir the livin, loon, bit Ah'v spint mine like a tourist - jist p on page 78

5 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Morrice spint the rest o the day rinnin bac on page 17
ilky second ye spint on God's gweed earth; fir aa on page 23
te brew an thinkin, Elspeth's spint the hale evenin miscaain aa t on page 29

3 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
fulled wi muckle joy, an they spint aa their time i the Temple, p on page 121

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
It's siller weel spint, Professor Bob on page 122
Oot o' marmalade, siller spint savin hard tae pey ma rint on page 186

2 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
We spint hoors packin up a' wir loot
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
day wi ice cream's a day weel spint https://t.co/owlaUQnOpd(2020) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
a dirty picter I wis a loon. Spint maist o i fillum wi ma jaicke(2019) search twitter
Jist spint i last half 'oor blaa'in up s(2019) search twitter
a fine @davejmcgregor. I jist spint a wik at the @invisahoteles i(2019) search twitter
@watterloony Spint an efterneen wi Tom and his a(2020) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
gettin its new beets fitted I spint ma savin's aht e bakers, e bu(2020) search twitter

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