A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spiders'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spidersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 spiders in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
r boots come oot o storage - spiders seek new haunts tae forage. P on page 75

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
in jam, er eyelashes war like spiders' legs an she'd great lang spi on page 80

1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
it was covered in black widow spiders...the females are brown and b (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
lf a box o matches lookin for spiders afore ye sat doon. Ye could w on page 75

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Meldrum04 Leave the spiders be n they will sort oot the f(2020)

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
squad !! Question fir aw you 'Spiders'. When & who wis the last 'Sp (2022) twitter link

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
y likes wasps, no even hungry spiders. ??????(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
ke em bit a cannae haud hoose spiders or be in a room wae wan!(2020)