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The word 'stairvin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stairvinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 2
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stairvin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah'm stairvin, fit's fur denner?(2016)
Aats jis coorse, ah’m stairvin! https://t.co/tYTesvs5Ad(2018)
hink aat’s nae eneuch, ah’m stairvin! https://t.co/XpxFy0x7bW(2019)

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ye taks ages tae byle fan yer stairvin. on page 42

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@Fionasstalker @DoricPhrases stairvin'(2019)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
sie tae drink frae? Gif ye're stairvin dae ye turn up yer neb on page 114

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ufficient aye tae keep ye fae stairvin. An these things were set up on page 95

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
imum that will keep them frae stairvin, and the lave he taks for him on page 6

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
nd it made him look radge and stairvin aw at wance. "Hullo, ma bairn on page 22
isonous, and onyweys, she wis stairvin. Klaus stairtit eatin as weel on page 73
t?" Violet said. "She must be stairvin efter hingin oot thon touer w on page 154

3 matches

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Twinklan, the unemployed, stairvin, liftan heids up tae the hill on page 56

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A weeda-wumman, stairvin coul, on page 28

1 matches

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