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The word 'spose'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sposeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.793
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 35.2 7 1
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 spose in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ye'd te enjoy yer wirk - Ah spose it's jist a bonus if ye div." on page 86

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
wisnae really a big deal. Ah spose it had somethin tae dae wi th on page 124

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ee-how'm ah gonnae manage it? Spose ah should fun sumhin tae eat on page 42
e, an she went oan. "Ah don't spose ye could tell us whit wey ah on page 63
fy timidly, sayin tae hersel "Spose it's aff its heid efter aw! A on page 65
ye like wae the cloak. Like, spose it's nine in the moarnin, tim on page 69
"Don't spose ye'd tell me," said Alice, a on page 77
Also on pages 100, 107
7 matches

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