A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spinning Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 2.1 4.8 0 0 21.9 0
Number of occurrences94 3 0 0 2 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of spinning in Corpus

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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

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

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

Doric

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

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

Southern

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