A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spinning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spinningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 spinning in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
he grun for a mintie, ma heid spinning. There’s a fair gale blaain
o the air, his airms and legs spinning. High up above us, the helico
2 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
rs o the morning fan ma heeds spinning fae last night!(2017)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
rods, fibre-glass affairs wi spinning reels attached and hooks at t
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
and it’ll boonce right aff, spinning awa withoot a mark oan it. Bu
1 matches

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
clatter across thi bar tae a spinning stop, yi see ther een; oot li
1 matches

General Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
Actually scoffed at the plate spinning bit! I've currently got mair (2017)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
bike but efter seein e at the spinning cless this week eel probably (2012)
watchin yow tryin ti dae the spinning cless #whatalaugh #poorpooref(2012)