A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spylin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0.5 9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences71 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of spylin in Corpus

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Central

Fleemin, Sandy Big Schuil, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
wisna lattin him awa wi this, spylin ma joke. "Hiv ye ever soukit
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah dinna wint te see onybody spylin im an at means: nae up oan th on page 62

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"You're spylin ess fir me - like ye ayewis on page 9
t a lot, an yer mither's jist spylin them," said Donald as he saa on page 41
e drink the fizzy cola wi'oot spylin the lipstick. on page 65

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
We canna hae a coo’s lick spylin ye,” he remairked.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
el weel, thon wis the warst o spylin the wee charges, it wis aa th
1 matches

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