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The word 'spen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43019
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 2
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of spen in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
he kent his winnins he'd nae spen For he'd yalla 140 on page 15

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hee's yawl "The Trust". A wid spen maist o ma tyme watchen oot f on page 1
t £1.50 each, we wid hay tae spen oot a tenner a pitril tae get on page 38

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r chunce te please wirsels an spen some quaality time thegither. on page 84

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hyngin at muckle. Ah'll mebbe spen a meenitie langer newsin te y on page 11

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
hargeret fir! She wad hae tae spen Yule hersel. Bobbin the Spurg
“Mebbe they’ll come an spen Yule wi me noo,” thocht Win
“We thocht we’d like tae spen Yule wi ye efter n’ aa.. if
didna spen her there.
certain sure he’d spen her this time. Boxies o orang
5 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
inmaist nicht - fit shall ah spen it on?(2018)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
l bet ye twinty poun ye winna spen a hale nicht aleen in the dun
1 matches

General Northern

Philip, George Luikin Back, (Jas Gaesham 2008 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Doric, prose
intul an ambulance. I wis tae spen siven wiks in the ospital and on page 6

1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Seein's wir ettlin tae spen the nixt seevety ir aichty ye on page 32

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
t time oot. An for aw that we spen mukkil o oor time grushin ger
1 matches

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
e play we thi dollies. We’d spen ages setting the game up n na
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
policy aboot lattin servants spen thair retirement in thair mai
policy aboot lattin servants spen thair retirement in thair mai
s new pals wis keen for tae spen thair earnins on mait an drin
int tae keep him there an tae spen his siller as weill’s thair
n maist o thaim chose for tae spen it ootside, despite the cauld
6 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
're no craikin for siller tae spen. (Until the adverts comes on, on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
Plato, that threapit we shuid spen oor time on whit we can see,
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
llae the rules and whaur they spen mair time ootside, cycle mair(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
o madness whun, if ye dinnae spen a hale fortune on tha weans,
1 matches

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
lent, it's oot here that I'll spen't, man, it's
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
No spen it lake Tam-fools. on page 41

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
If ye had 60 minutes tae spen. on page 15

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Gin the’ spen tha same time leevin atween t
1 matches

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