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The word 'spoots'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spootsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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 spoots in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Gaetheran spoots and limpets in the ebb. on page 42

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
fur spoots, an trip, an caper roond? on page 21

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
læk moorlaand spoots on page 13

1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
the pate was drookit, an wee spoots o watter rin doon the path af
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@FinHall Spoots(2020)
The spoots are getting tried oot noo(2020)

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
ed. She gliffed and groozled. Spoots o watter cam skitin oot o her on page 41
inked back a wheen paces. The spoots o steam keepit skooshin oot o on page 98

2 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
wes alang, wi rowth o chirrin spoots an linns. Naur Tillicoutry th on page 65

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ur fae deid as the geysers or spoots on this moon shaws. As it gae
is heat is the pouer ahin the spoots an nitrogen jilps oot intil a
2 matches

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