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The word 'stoory'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stooryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91910
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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) 176.7 2 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 stoory in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The lad browt oot a stoory box. "Noo, sir, we're back on on page 47

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
stoory above the stove on page 46

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
e toon an mak wur wey along a stoory country road, we’re thrille
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
nds an lanes an streets o the stoory toun. The auld man's empire o
r o the barn, an sclimmed the stoory timmer stairs o the barn in t
quines cooriet doon in their stoory hideyhole, at a soon as if a
l in a circle roon him on the stoory fleer o the laft. Ilkie een h
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
oungaun fur aa kins o pechin, stoory traffic tae toun an kintra. T
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
NE vairsion is cried Whuppity Stoory. The neist is a traivellers t
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
da managed tae haul a raither stoory and girnie-faced parrot doon on page 42

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
They leukit doon on a stoory scrublan. Ata short distance,
wirkin. Alane in this cauld, stoory laun on the edge o the desert
there cud be a thoosan mile o stoory desert till ye won tae the Bo
t’s a meeserable win-swept, stoory hellhole. A bit lik Xinjiang
4 matches

Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
mile wi' th' beasts oan thair stoory. Thay climbed up a tree. Than
1 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
r tae the windae, dichtit the stoory pane wi the sleeve o hes blec on page 18

2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The glancin jab an stoory flail o the forks, on page 27
The rodden's stoory stur lang smoored; on page 43

2 matches

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