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Use in varieties of Scots

spectacle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 3

Occurrences of spectacle in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
A spectacle for the baying crowd on page 7

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Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
rust haes been pittin on this spectacle for aboot ten year an it’s
see hou it wis that this fine spectacle haed won sae mony awards an w
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Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ng an wis sae affected by the spectacle that he joined the Covenantin

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
wis at the Grouse Inn makin a spectacle o yersel in ticht jeans danci on page 94

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s dreamin es Ah stared it the spectacle afore ma: a black grape wis n on page 32

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
d on the Palio - fit a graan spectacle! (2021) twitter link

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