A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spreed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spreedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of spreed in Corpus

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Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
oreheed scrunched up and fear spreed across his fis. But in a mett
1 matches

General Central

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
ooer o multinaitionals an the spreed o consumerism, thae character
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
under th windae, she suddenly spreed oot hur haun, an made a snatc on page 35

1 matches

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
be pit on. A braid grin haed spreed richt owe Conor’s neb. Dot
wee smirk on Gerald’s bake spreed intae a muckle smirk. Val hau
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ang tha fowk. Wurd aboot hïm spreed aa ower Syria, an the' brocht on page 4
' oot, than the' stairtit tae spreed tha news aboot hïm aa roon t on page 9

2 matches

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