A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spreidin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 9.3 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2118 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors16 13 2 1

Occurrences of spreidin in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ken aboot that," he gaed on, spreidin oot the verses on his knee, a on page 44

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
adowin the hoose. Its massive spreidin boughs seemed tae be enfauldi on page 178

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
y pouer. An the haill norie o spreidin 'civilization' that Empire Lo on page 21

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
a gallus and mervellous grin spreidin aw ower his fizzog, Granda Jo on page 57

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ae Space. I never kent a mair Spreidin Oot boorach o beasts in ma li on page 160

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
spreidin fear. on page 25

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McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
they said, makkin a fashion o spreidin claes ower the kists. "Tak a on page 63

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Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
n poored in, its bleezin heat spreidin ower the broun
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
y frae Laitin, an ay keeps on spreidin tae affeck mair an mair leids
nch, whilk was drookit be the spreidin watters o staunardisation sui
hical barrier at lets it frae spreidin. In Eurasia, the kenspeckle c
3 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
in thair bedclaes an spreidin terror, scunnert me by the or
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
o weel-chowed chuggy. An it's spreidin, faur ayont even the stenogra
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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
a haird hee-haw, an that the spreidin sílence in ma hert is dissol
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Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
the solar plexus, its poison spreidin oot its evil hauns until ma h
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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
ined, uncrunklin the paper an spreidin it oot for Kat tae see. The m
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
i activity frae Yes activists spreidin a message o hope while the La
wi the message o hope we were spreidin. It seemed tae be that gin fo
2 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
st Ailice tae present her, an spreidin baith his hanns out til her i on page 98

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
biggest ferm in the pairish, spreidin oot her braa skirts frae the
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
somethin Ah'm no, Iona. Ah'm spreidin an haudin a licht tae Scots, (2021) twitter link