A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spoiled Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of spoiled in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
"You've spoiled it!' ah screamed. 'You spoil on page 7

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
, if I improved the poetry, I spoiled the simplicity of the old son on page 69

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
snae happy its aff tae - its spoiled her peace n quiet fir an hoor (2021) twitter link
me am a gonna watch 2 nite - spoiled for choice - luv it (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
she’d a bonny smile it wiz spoiled wi her showin ower muckle o h
1 matches

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
er gan ti apologise ti ali, e spoiled his nite. A deken what @_xlin(2012) search twitter