A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spreads Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3 1.5 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences96 1 0 1 1 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of spreads in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
at the sink. The licht fae it spreads oot in a wedge that fades awa on page 1

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
n thum yersel makes it worse, spreads thum aboot, I'd bin leavin th on page 2

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ted oan ma burd. Word quickly spreads through the shoap as it norma on page 40
ghter. An action that quickly spreads throughoot ma spectators on page 57

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ifications ay it, as the news spreads through the bar. If St. Johns
1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
lowse up wi brain freeze aat spreads a o’er yer body an almost ma(2019) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
da cosh sun is an enemy an spreads on page 97

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The frost, its cloak spreads even oot on page 15

1 matches

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