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The word 'steir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
steirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92212
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 78.6 6 1
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 4
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 steir 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.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
lach ah hiv a special mug tae steir ma fly cuppa! https://t.co/6l(2018)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Hit's yuiseless ti steir up remembraunce o whit I conn on page 26

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
uiet an the butterflees disna steir. Syne the wifie lats faa a pr
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
yill suin pit thair wuts in a steir. John’s tung begoud ti wag.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
til’s. What haes happent ti steir up sik a braw man? O coorse,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
ds bot didna tak tent o thair steir warnishins, an set out ti bet on page 10

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Gin she shuid steir this up again, Whit wad becom on page 44

2 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
r a while maist lairds didnae steir themsels ower muckle aboot en on page 33
enge. The news o Drumclog wad steir up a muckle wasps' bike in Em on page 39
rin on an I dout I'll hae tae steir mysel tae gang doun tae the M on page 59
ss thae five years. Feart tae steir gin the troopers cam back, he on page 60

4 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ll, Ah'll nae be blate gin yi steir a straucht course.' on page 13
's rinnin warst roun the waa. Steir awa, laddies, ootbye, ootbye on page 14

4 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
..'Naebody. I just mix it and steir it like parritch. Then I turn on page 11

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
n, my laddie, wha ye mint tae steir;
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
up tae see whit wes makin the steir.
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
" she said. "I jist mix it an steir it like parritch. Then I turn(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ls flies aboot an unco things steir.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
in aa its virr and unco steir, on page 135

1 matches

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