Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'stains'

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Use in varieties of Scots

stains	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.9	16	14
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
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	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	9.1	2	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	62.8	2	1
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 stains 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.

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
ined school polos - suncream stains aboot da collar dat I canni s (2019) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e fussy; Ah dinna mind a fyow stains - jist as lang as Ah'm the e on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
The broon stains on the ceilin mak me hink abo on page 43

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Jessie nae happy as beer stains a o'er them noo but was nae m(2016)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d. A carpet that's goat maire stains oan it than an actress auditi on page 13

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
cream anorak an it had broon stains aw doon the front on page 169

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
cream anorak an it hud broon stains aw doon the front an her fing
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
h wiz covered in mud an grass stains on page 52

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ge’s mair nor a rickle o’ stains ,
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
she wonnert). Bit the gun-ile stains on Raggle’s haun, an his br
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ds wae green streaks ay mossy stains runnin parallel tae corroded
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
aff ma back, covered in grass stains , stomach gaun like a washin m
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
had on a grey suit wi mirkie stains aw ower it. His face wis birs on page 22

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
haund. There were muckle weet stains ablo the oxters o his white M on page 37

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
the nixt minute a shour o wee stains come rattlin in the wunda, an on page 40

2 matches