A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'starnie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
starnieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 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
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 starnie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
an tis telt that finiver yon starnie shawed itsel, Quetzalcoatl de
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
9. The Tale o Jeemsie’s Starnie
lpit him draw a muckle pyntit starnie.
langsyne, an foo a starnie glimmered abeen him. o a sudd
Jeemsie’s starnie till it glinted like gowd, an
voices, a sang o the wee starnie o Bethlehem.
9 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
ered in the sky as the evenin starnie rase. A prince wi derk een st on page 114

1 matches

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