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The word 'stanin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staninOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.6286
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 106.4 24 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 163.5 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stanin in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I SPIED HER STANIN 'ERE on page 64
I wiz stanin by wi' pentbrushes an easles on page 67
I dinna wint tae watch Dundee stanin' in i'caul on page 93
Stanin spikin wi ma Unty, on page 136
disna come we git a tan frae stanin in i'Scottish rain. on page 144
Also on pages 155, 178, 197, 201
19 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
sted his heid roon aboot near stanin up tae hae a richt look o the
1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ower aside him. Stanin nae faur, bit up-wund fae oo,
stanin prood, gairdin heez nannies a
ae lik yon Billy gait. It’s stanin ower
3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
w ower iz. Oh Wullie wis jist stanin in a dwam. A haid tae haud st
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ratur loomit ower him, wi fed stanin cen an lang hair like snakes on page 69

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
doon ma back jist stanin gowpin it thit baist's plet, on page 81

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
The bridegrooms stanin' thaveless, as the bride glid on page 18

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
A wus stanin thair rigid wae fear!! on page 56

1 matches

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