A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spars'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sparsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.963
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spars in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e harness heistit up ower the spars o the stable. Fin the great b
lpit Isie tae swing up in the spars o the reef, far sackin an str
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ch, they tell me, there's the spars o a slave-ship that cam up fy
turned the neuk, the tapmaist spars o the auld slave-ship raise e
2 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
a ledder's spars tae me, on page 71

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
as braid as a road, wi widden spars on baith sides o it. Christop on page 85

1 matches

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