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The word 'spoilt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spoiltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71513
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 spoilt in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e end up no spaekan case ah'm spoilt hid aal again. on page 81

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A bonny night spoilt by midgies on page 79

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
vinegar an a sponge fur the spoilt meat. on page 20

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ing. Dir perfect paradise wis spoilt. on page 5

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ohn aatagidder. He wis been a spoilt bairn fae da day he wis boarn on page 11
n ta be da sam here, dir just spoilt brats whaarever you gying, na on page 27

2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
to go north. I've been pretty spoilt ower da years so canna compla(2016)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hrase Fare Coniched fit means spoilt rotten. xx(2014)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
cends oan the hings like Some spoilt wee bastard openin his Christ on page 133

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
"It's only spoilt bairns that canna see it; the on page 75

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
kin fur a book! You're gettin spoilt, ma lassie!' on page 6

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
uckin Lacoste tracksuits. The spoilt cunt's moanin fur a Berghaus on page 7

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
they brung. That wean'll get spoilt rotten. At least tae the next
1 matches

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
o gonnae be dictated tae by a spoilt, useless chantywrassler like (2021)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
it 'caught' and spoilt the jam. on page 149

1 matches

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