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The word 'stans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61811
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of stans in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nly cam tull im. "At's fit it stans fir." on page 50

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
a strong chiel, weel airmed, stans gaird ower his castle, his ge on page 100

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
that the club in club sarnie stans for "chicken lettuce under ba(2020)

General Northern

McBeath, Lorraine Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Quine at School, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Fan i bell gings, she stans hersel on page 54

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Dad stans up an waves fin he sees us co on page 96

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Jist stans stracht up day efter day.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
says Mingin, "Gin the laddie stans on a perr o steps oot in the on page 26

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
for yon bookie's rinner that stans on the corner o Grant Street on page 58

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
She stans near the slap an', I tigh'en
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
, an "Yin mair shot" G'lespie stans in stane. on page 1
s no sae wee) Hingin roon tha stans lake cleggs the' ir, the' din on page 20

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
ondit me On iverie side thair stans on page 65

1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
pe a stroop. 'thon bodie just stans aboot aw day, stroop in hawn' (2021) twitter link
pe a stroop. 'thon bodie just stans aboot aw day, stroop in hawn'(2021)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
t tha seed sowed nixt tha pad stans fer. An then tha seed that fa on page 9

4 matches

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