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The word 'doorstep'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doorstepOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51513
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 3
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of doorstep in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
dna alloo a TV set in ower da doorstep. (Sometimes, wi da brukk at's on page 5
s settin a muckle box ipo dir doorstep. An dan he gude doon da rodd, on page 31

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
as seen set his fit ower the doorstep o a brothel as be seen in the on page 72

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Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
se that haed just cam fae the doorstep, ma mam, ma sister an masel a
birds an bees, richt on their doorstep. They aa provide us wi multip
2 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
€™s a thin layer o sand on ma doorstep and a few trees have blaan ow
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
the size o a doorstep (Jonsar Eck hid made the sand
1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
new bidie-in loitered oan her doorstep, smokin an smirkin like he'd on page 7

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ed tae find Wee Shuggie on ma doorstep, hoppin aboot excitedly frae on page 19

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
delivered on yir doorstep, alang we on page 1

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@d_anderson878 tweeted
Heel, or a doorstep. Bit thon's nae sae thick as (2020)

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
then again in the damp on the doorstep in Ury Lane, while aw
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Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
hree of them, staundin on the doorstep on a Saturday efternoon and t
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General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ago, despite them bein on ma doorstep !!! (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
a the day. Ah wis stood on ma doorstep fer aroon 10 meenits, talkin (2020)