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The word 'spectator'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spectatorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 spectator in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
He still loved the game as a spectator sport. He tuik ma sister tae
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ast 4 games this weekend as a spectator - yes will follow the rules (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ist stood there lookin at the spectator's bit where ma best pal Charl on page 14
ner bliddy lengths. Up in the spectator bit sumdy wis cheerin an wolf on page 15
ater, she jist sits up in the spectator bit wi her nose in wan ae her on page 55

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
ist stood there lookin at the spectator’s bit where ma best pal Cha
ner bliddy lengths. Up in the spectator bit sumdy wis cheerin an wolf
feart. He came an sat in the spectator’s bit at the weekend an wat
3 matches

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