A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'staanin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staaninOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of staanin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
athoot his kennin an saa him staanin at the heed o the cliffs look
lichtit up fin she saw Lizzie staanin there an wi a “Ae me quine
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
skipper pynted ti the wumman staanin doon on the quay bi the secur on page 41
he wheelhoose the skipper wis staanin ticht-lipped an tense. 'We're on page 45

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
She wis staanin ootside the toyshop wi a baby
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ink there'll be ae tree stull staanin, for I ken na fou lang a wye on page 62
an eggie!" she said out loud, staanin wi her hanns reddie tae kep h on page 76
re, the tidder Messenger, wes staanin gomin at the fecht, wi a tass on page 95

3 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
e be blasted worse than ivver staanin on a mine in the Libyan deser
1 matches

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