A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spoiling Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences32 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of spoiling in Corpus

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Central

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
e heard tell o’ Finn he was spoiling for a fight wi’ him. Thatâ€
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ed tae have another coffee... Spoiling masel'... Have a guid day mat (2023) twitter link

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
clair @AnneMariedeHaan Am nae spoiling(2020) search twitter