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Use in varieties of Scots

spyin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of spyin in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
when her hert gied a lowp on spyin the Cheshire Cat sittin on th on page 44

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ulder brithers were skeely at spyin whaur the whaups an wild deuk on page 74

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
umours o a couple o Frenchmen spyin oot the lay o the land preced on page 26

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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
what like it haed been, Nancy spyin the leuk in his ee an turnin on page 125

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
believe me, wi his spyin. on page 31

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Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
'fir spyin oan us ower here, on page 129

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Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
what like it haed been, Nancy spyin the leuk in his ee an turnin
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
stant keekin, an luggin-in an spyin that the fowk o the “Free W
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
re pairts fir them n wer they spyin oan us - ffs kin a no go up (2021) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Spyin i'baker fa's kneedin i'dough on page 159

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