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The word 'steidy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
steidyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 58.1 1 1
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 steidy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
hou ye gae... tak it nice and steidy," cawed oot Ma, leavin the tw on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
aw wraith, but his voice wis steidy.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
a easy for a pig tae win at a steidy fit on a ledder) Snawba sprau
ir days, o coorse) and stramp steidy roond and roond the field wi
2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
t's mebbe chips embeddit in a steidy state, on page 105
Steidy, steidy on yer fechtin wey on page 143

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
nae easy thing for a pig tae steidy himsel on a ladder) Snawbaw s on page 6

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
he day. Efter presidin ower a steidy, but slawly declin vote for m
on an leimitit impack. Haudin steidy, but no leukin like mountin o
2 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
s if sumbdy’d sprinkled it, steidy ladelin it on; it looked crac
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Nature alwyes steidy farrit on page 28

1 matches

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