A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spanner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spannerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spanner in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
then came across a big muckle spanner that hid been left ahin be th
he electrician's hoose wi the spanner.
an asks. "Hiv you nae lost a spanner?" haudin up the muckle
3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
’s when ma new BFF throws a spanner in the works, By pittin his a
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
The Shift Spanner on page 46
wis, or it haud been, a shift spanner. A big near three-fit lang sp on page 52
, that had aince been a shift spanner, richt back doun the hole. on page 54

4 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Wan wizard wi a spanner, on page 7

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@robmcd85 Weel the spanner in that micht weel be if onyb(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
oan ‘til someane wid throw a spanner in the works, shuid be brave (2021) twitter link