A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spaghetti Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 4 6 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences148 4 1 0 1 0
Number of authors12 7 3 1 1

Occurrences of spaghetti in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
he day wur meant tae be makin spaghetti bolognese but because it's go on page 85
val tryin tae unstick it. The spaghetti wis fine cause ah did that pa on page 86

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
wan pot, and then dae up some spaghetti tae gang wi it." on page 40

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
et yin anither. It’s lik a Spaghetti Western, wae antsy cooboys st
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
‘Spaghetti,’ replied her dad, plunkin
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
we lived oan meatballs an’ spaghetti.
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ese threads is like unknoting spaghetti-- am i losing it or are you - (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
them lot a hope every tin ae spaghetti hoops he ever eats fir the re (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e'll look like a reject fae a Spaghetti Western. Div ye nae think it' on page 56
spikkin throwe yon Alphabetti Spaghetti an the plastic letters on the on page 76

2 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Nae tins o' ham, nor spaghetti hoops on page 150

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
her luik like an ashet o spaghetti. It tuik Bobbin the Spurgie o
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shiny fan o seaweed, dark spaghetti on page 49

1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
t ma heed roond why folk like spaghetti. What a load o shite. Fuckin (2019) search twitter