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The word 'spar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sparOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3148
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 spar in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
er @orkneycom Oh a lovely wee spar! (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
™s eye. It wis a graet muckle spar o’ wid an Mansie wanted hit
mart if he wanted tae gyit da spar an win hame-trow. Slowly and
rms, an yokkit a hadd o’ da spar. He wippit hit up we rop an,
3 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@advancedref Spar min(2020)

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
lk an needit tae nash tae the Spar, it wid anely tak five meenit on page 78

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ah went straicht doun tae the Spar, on page 146

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
t KIRKLANDS FERM frae the tap spar o the yett and in its steid p
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
tame corbie, wha sleepit on a spar ahint the back door. When Maj on page 6

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
jist get his chin on the tap spar, if he wantit tae, but it wis on page 85
er wee tae rax tae the bottom spar. Sae they wid lie doon and wa on page 86
hat if he stood on the bottom spar o the brig, and leant ower, a on page 97

5 matches

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