A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of spa in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
a bit. But it's maire like a spa, honest. Then some nice famil on page 157

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
s she's as pure as the Well o Spa; ithers prefer on page 111

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
‘Whit’s a spa . . . ‘ she stertit, pickin
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@andipeters Going tae Spa in the City Event on Edinburg(2015) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Save 15% off Short Breaks, Spa & Beauty booked before 29th S(2017) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
wers for a half hour is lik a spa treatment to me. Relaxes my m(2019) search twitter