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The word 'steeple'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
steepleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
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 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 steeple in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
'Every lum a steeple', he'd written, 'Every hoose on page 17

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
him upo e heidmaist pint o e steeple, an says till him, "Gin ye be on page 10

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
heidsteens wi its wee stinch steeple like a finger, pyntin tae Hei
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
He looked up at the kirk steeple. In a windae there wis a wee on page 34

1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
and the vauntie steeple o Calvin's muckle kirk? on page 144

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
tant tae the incumbent at the Steeple Kirk. He wis a short, stocky on page 108
o Dundee. The precentor o the Steeple Kirk, the mannie that led the on page 109
rvice tae the meenister o the Steeple Kirk, but some fowk noticed t on page 110
the Howff gravedigger an the Steeple Kirk's meenister's man, an tu on page 111

5 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
oddie church, aa gless an nae steeple, percht up on the brae.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
, booin tae neither croon nor steeple, tae merk wir times wi dingin on page 77

2 matches

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