A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'staying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stayingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71210
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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)
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 staying in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
haven't done it, They're not staying/They aren't staying. on page 89

2 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ing ower sax ouks lockdown bi staying hame protecting the NHS https(2020)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Aff got a lot of hope noo o' staying alive fer a lang time noo ???(2018)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
wi Senga aa the time she wis staying wi us. Doris couldnae believe
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
whats awe this about staying local? spent the day doon at (2021) twitter link

Ayrshire

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
"Ye are going tae be staying here now, but don’t worry A
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
idin’; literally, ‘always staying’, but generally best owerse
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
eScotUnicorn @paulnewton3 I'm staying in Edin Fri night with my pal (2022) twitter link
icorn @paulnewton3 I know I'm staying in Edinburgh the Friday night (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
t masel oot the night.nae gid staying in masel. #pintpintsbaby(2012)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
kenna63 It's guid weather for staying in and catching up on the @sc(2020)