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Use in varieties of Scots

stagger Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 3.7 6.4 29.8 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences157 4 3 0 1 0
Number of authors12 7 3 1 1

Occurrences of stagger in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
bi the stagger an stam o ma vyce, on page 52

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
to tack with the odd brisk stagger on page 50

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
e best Christmas ever man, We stagger roon ae the park, right, an m on page 174

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Stagger and swing that's the thing on page 43

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
A thistle, A?'m stertin tae stagger. A'll hae tae sit doon Ma bra on page 41

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
obstruction. Hale hoosehauds stagger doun the street in socially-d
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
A stagger up and git a pal:
1 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
ee Jazz/Blues festival for my stagger many years ago. I’ve aye lik (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
and appeal only a couple tae stagger suspensions. #StandFree #aber(2020) search twitter
you had a big bust up on yer stagger. Fit happened? Confident for (2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ma lugs nipped fan I finally stagger in bit that’s fan being half(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
They lurch an they stagger, the fiddles still flyan, on page 27

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
builds in her breest - he'll stagger home full o the joys on page 117
They lurch an they stagger, the fiddles still flyan on page 152

2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
i Hawick, hei wud gie ae bit stagger an tak off up the dreive til
1 matches

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