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Use in varieties of Scots

spanner Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences117 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of spanner in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
The Shift Spanner on page 46
wis, or it haud been, a shift spanner. A big near three-fit lang sp on page 52
, that had aince been a shift spanner, richt back doun the hole. on page 54

4 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Wan wizard wi a spanner, on page 7

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
’s when ma new BFF throws a spanner in the works, By pittin his a
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@robmcd85 Weel the spanner in that micht weel be if onyb(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
then came across a big muckle spanner that hid been left ahin be th
he electrician's hoose wi the spanner.
an asks. "Hiv you nae lost a spanner?" haudin up the muckle
3 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
oan ‘til someane wid throw a spanner in the works, shuid be brave (2021) twitter link