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The word 'staunch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staunchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 2
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 staunch in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ough and he, as a freend, wis staunch and true. His loyalty didna e on page 77

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and the hole in his guts tae staunch the bleed. He weel kent he’
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
McDonald wis next in line; A staunch, but able chiel. He did the j on page 29

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
eth, launch, pinch, pinchneb, staunch, winch.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
scraps council tax - even a staunch labour man like me would cons (2021) twitter link

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
s about the place. They're aa staunch adherents tae the Covenant, a on page 29
ng James, Earl o Loudoun - a staunch pillar o the Covenant - had on page 48
time ither, tae be kent as a staunch adherent tae the great Nation on page 51
' Adam kent that Tammas wis a staunch supporter o the Covenant, an on page 52

4 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
the Tories in bein pairt o a staunch Unionist estaiblishment that on page 14

1 matches

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