A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spreading'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spreadingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
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 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spreading in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e. The septicaemia wiz slowly spreading an if it cairriet on like tha
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
y appreciate it an thanks fur spreading the wirdie aboot Doric Phrase(2014)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
nFC @AFCCT Yon second loon is spreading the virus lik a muck spreader(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
Iamacant @RogueCoder250 Santa spreading hoose to hoose bide at hame m(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ill working to stop the fires spreading. The exact numbers of dead an
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
ans first and then eventually spreading tae the ootside, wrapping aro on page 37

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
om chairwoman is a nightmare, spreading word aboot a book befare sche(2020)

General Ulster

Robinson, Philip Tae a Virus, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, poetry
Yer spreading rate is quite intense,
1 matches

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