A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spending'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spendingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 spending in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ar her. Dere's dat poor boddy spending every penny on dem an lyin i on page 44

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
came in wi his Mither aifter spending the day http://t.co/21RRLraHI(2014)
n snaed in, it stops ma wifie spending buckie!(2018)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@RossCounty Spending oor ppv money generated last (2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
me. You'll stop gambling and spending too much time with Aldo." on page 84

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
be me googling recipes, then spending more than a guid takeaway on (2020)

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
getting faur too auld tae be spending time oot in the rain. It disn
1 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ow to allocate it. Ye,ve been spending North sea oil revenues fir 47 (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
Spending a weekend cuttin aboot london (2021) twitter link