A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spurs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 8.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1716 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of spurs in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The cowpoke's spurs spiked and spinnin on page 79

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
A warrior ti his very spurs! on page 35

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
e main line tae Edinb’ry wi spurs aff tae the coallieries. Ahen
1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
grips - chink-chink-chink o spurs. Bit instead Ah dragged thon
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
the early Barcelona derbies. Spurs had 3 Derval boys in their te(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
live ootside plus the mighty spurs doin the bizz tae end a crack (2020) twitter link
baw m8 - fancied a rangers n spurs double 2 nite lol (2020) twitter link
arsenal - cannae wait to the spurs spank them lol (2020) twitter link
aways hud a soft spot fir the spurs n who knows cood this b the y (2020) twitter link
o - the dream team the mitey spurs brother hae dun the bizz - g (2020) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
-waays beciss I wis wearin me spurs. on page 29

1 matches

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