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Use in varieties of Scots

stooks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 3 4.5 19.9 5.8 10.3 17.7
Number of occurrences176 3 2 1 1 4
Number of authors11 4 2 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of stooks in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 82 - The Gowden Boat, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
The stooks lig gaithert, hairst is ower, on page 15

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e nourishin bounty o the corn stooks, furst in twas an threes, the on page 34

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
nae stryngers roond the corn-stooks chowin thair wey throu the un on page 80

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
year, cuid see fields o corn stooks washed intae the Solway. on page 17

2 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
in gaitherin the sheafs intae stooks strechtened
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
men; he saa the raas o biggit stooks, rucks an bales glintin in th on page 93
4h can myn the raas o biggit stooks, on page 94

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
pit his crap in. He jist made stooks o them aa ower the place. on page 19

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o stooks in the grimleens; on page 9

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
hide in the makshift tents o stooks on page 95

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
irkers dat dey wir ta bind up stooks o coarn fir Ruth an mak sure on page 19

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The stooks noo a' in perfect line on page 8

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
for twenty stooks Ah had tae get on page 7
So Ah toul' him Ah'd twenty stooks. on page 8

4 matches

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