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The word 'stooks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stooksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31711
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 654 4 1
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 stooks in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o stooks in the grimleens; on page 9

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
hide in the makshift tents o stooks on page 95

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
irkers dat dey wir ta bind up stooks o coarn fir Ruth an mak sure on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
men; he saa the raas o biggit stooks, rucks an bales glintin in th on page 93
4h can myn the raas o biggit stooks, on page 94

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
pit his crap in. He jist made stooks o them aa ower the place. on page 19

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e nourishin bounty o the corn stooks, furst in twas an threes, the on page 34

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
nae stryngers roond the corn-stooks chowin thair wey throu the un on page 80

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
year, cuid see fields o corn stooks washed intae the Solway. on page 17

2 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
in gaitherin the sheafs intae stooks strechtened
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The stooks noo a' in perfect line on page 8

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Lallans 82 - The Gowden Boat, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
The stooks lig gaithert, hairst is ower, on page 15

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
for twenty stooks Ah had tae get on page 7
So Ah toul' him Ah'd twenty stooks. on page 8

4 matches

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