A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spanners Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 1.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences52 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of spanners 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
it wi the great big big shift spanners an the crane cairryin the pip on page 49

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
other wee footery things lik spanners an a pump an her pink an purp on page 42

1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
spanners were kept bit, na, na, there
1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Then oot came the spanners, an pliers, an vice grips on page 8
point o cursin an swearin, an spanners bein threw roon the flure, on page 9

2 matches

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