A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spoiled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spoiledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 spoiled in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
she’d a bonny smile it wiz spoiled wi her showin ower muckle o h
1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
"You've spoiled it!' ah screamed. 'You spoil on page 7

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
snae happy its aff tae - its spoiled her peace n quiet fir an hoor (2021) twitter link
me am a gonna watch 2 nite - spoiled for choice - luv it (2020) twitter link

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
, if I improved the poetry, I spoiled the simplicity of the old son on page 69

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
er gan ti apologise ti ali, e spoiled his nite. A deken what @_xlin(2012)