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The word 'spencer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spencerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1176
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 153.4 11 1
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 spencer in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ee tickets in ma box Marks an Spencer, ICI An a puckle ither eens f on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y, grippin onte her Marks and Spencer's bug like a badge o respecta on page 43

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
DIANA SPENCER
DINNA SPENCER
2 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Forget Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn - on page 18

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
P @mackieHT have you heard of Spencer Branch....https://t.co/BupqHx(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
s, black puddin - the works. Spencer an ees Da came ower fur some
"Spencer. How did ye manage that?"
umchapel wis goin past, me an Spencer wur tellin evrubdy aboot yon
Whit d'ye mean Mr Gobbs? Me n Spencer didnae even know ther wis suc
But Spencer goes:
11 matches

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