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The word 'staircase'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staircaseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 staircase in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
lights o linoleum-clad spiral staircase; fired up on page 7

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ott it, an Sandy wad wash the staircase windae wi the aal stirrup-pum on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
vGordonToGo What a bosker o a staircase.??(2019)

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ined, but they are. There's a staircase, concrete and barren, the rou on page 14

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ked at the door tae the touer staircase, in case ye're gettin ony bon on page 110

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n trippin at the curve in the staircase that once broke Kate's arm. on page 14
up at a lang, grey and metal staircase. Whit a day tae be wearin hee on page 56

2 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
thing considerin' the muckle staircase eed tae climb if ee wanted ta
1 matches

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