A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spruced Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences31 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of spruced in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
. Da looked better - shaved, spruced up, stinkin ch Brut aftershav on page 7

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Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
a Fittie Loon & seen ya hive spruced up the auld pilots bothy, any(2018) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Spruced up the corridor! Linguistic l (2020) twitter link