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The word 'staiy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staiyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9131
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 66.6 13 1
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)
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 staiy in Corpus

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ae yersel a favour wee man an staiy away fae that cunt. He’s ba
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Maist ay the cunts that staiy aboot here ur either outright
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
bro. It’s fur any cunt tae staiy in.’ McDade sais, sagely, e
‘So, ye kin just staiy here fur nuttin like? Nae cun
that’s different. Where we staiy’s awready a shitehole.’ h
3 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
˜It’s no just somewhere tae staiy.’ ah told them. 'It’s mar
definition then, they had tae staiy.
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Ye staiy up the stair, dae ye?’ the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
We staiy in fur another drink efterwar
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
dae ye mean? You bloody well staiy oot ay it, dae ye hear me?’
hit ah’m bloody sayin! Yous staiy away fae that swine, dae ye h
‘You staiy away fae that swine, dae ye h
3 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
‘Julie? She disnae even staiy wae ye man. Who’s fuckin fl
1 matches

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