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The word 'spottit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spottitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22413
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 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 2
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 spottit in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
a maist famous een wis aesily spottit wi his nose sheenin laek a re
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
When she spottit this big larry tyre Well - n on page 15

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Stevie. "Foo did ye first get spottit?" on page 58
"Oops!" Chantelle spottit the pass it the same time an on page 61
oon the neuk o the curtins an spottit him. on page 82

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
shooder an Ah kent she'd jist spottit some'dy a lot mair interestin on page 30
te git is breath back fin he spottit Stevie's jeep comin up the st on page 42

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
is sayin efter the lichts war spottit: “Something’s gaun’ae h
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e even operational yet cin be spottit frae a hunner mile awa. on page 121

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
he craw's nest on the ship an spottit a polar bear no far aff. It w on page 37
e bow. Aince a whale had been spottit fae the craw's nest on the ta on page 40
speak tae Davie wuid be easy spottit. Some fowk did try but aw wer on page 88

3 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Weel spottit. A'm a Macduffer fa bides in (2020)

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
He spottit them on page 98

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
k here had smaa feet: whan he spottit a pair o buits that wad fit h
he fund hissel stuck whan he spottit, ower late, that they were ge
2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Eventually she spottit a wee gless boax that wis lyi on page 14

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
He spottit Jonjo Regan as wi were comin
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
spottit wi flechs, seemed aboot tae f
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
, in 1816, mony fowk in Embra spottit anither orra object up in the
ly the same kind o object wis spottit ower the Cote d’Azur in Fra
2 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
t in them aw, makkin a muckle spottit cairpet. Fankelite bairns, sa
1 matches

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