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The word 'spylin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spylinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
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 spylin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah dinna wint te see onybody spylin im an at means: nae up oan th on page 62

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"You're spylin ess fir me - like ye ayewis on page 9
t a lot, an yer mither's jist spylin them," said Donald as he saa on page 41
e drink the fizzy cola wi'oot spylin the lipstick. on page 65

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
el weel, thon wis the warst o spylin the wee charges, it wis aa th
1 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
We canna hae a coo’s lick spylin ye,” he remairked.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Big Schuil, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
wisna lattin him awa wi this, spylin ma joke. "Hiv ye ever soukit
1 matches

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