A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spending Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.6 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences95 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of spending in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
me. You'll stop gambling and spending too much time with Aldo." on page 84

1 matches

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
getting faur too auld tae be spending time oot in the rain. It disn
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
be me googling recipes, then spending more than a guid takeaway on (2020) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ow to allocate it. Ye,ve been spending North sea oil revenues fir 47 (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
Spending a weekend cuttin aboot london (2021) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
came in wi his Mither aifter spending the day http://t.co/21RRLraHI(2014) search twitter
n snaed in, it stops ma wifie spending buckie!(2018) search twitter

@beast_afc tweeted
@RossCounty Spending oor ppv money generated last (2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ar her. Dere's dat poor boddy spending every penny on dem an lyin i on page 44

1 matches

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