A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'staring'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staringOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 staring in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
sat at her wee roll top desk staring intae nithing. At one side o
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ird gave a groan and sat doon staring at the paintin as if he’d n
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
tae dee bit sit in the hoose staring across the room at her indoor(2020)

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
bit, but ah jist stood there, staring. Mesmerised that somethin lik
1 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
roared. People were smiling. Staring. Never blinking. The pulse o
t! And their een sockets were staring richt at me...
d their heids tae where I wis staring and I quickly picked up a dec
3 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
p at ‘is face, the cunt’s staring intensely at me. Ah ken that
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae ma pipe. Tam sits quietly staring oot the windae tae the green
1 matches

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