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The word 'stile'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stileOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9195
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 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 168.7 12 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stile in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
uarter o an inch aff o a lock stile wi his aix raither nor his ja on page 86

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e twa o us clambered owre the stile wi oor gear. Frank and the tw
climbed the stony path to the stile and crossed the road tae rejo
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
he sais, pointin tae a widden stile at the side ay the road. Ther
We climb oer the stile an alang the path a bit afore
They’re huddled roon the stile. Two or three ay them hurried
3 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
seen eldritch figure at back stile, on page 24

1 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
The pig come tae a stile. The oul wumman sed,
“Pig, pig, get ower the stile’ The pig sed,
“All naw get ower the stile’ An hae ran awa. Hae run aw
The pig’ll naw get ower the stile, an A cannae get hame the nic
The pig’ll naw get ower the stile,
12 matches

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