A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'stawns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stawnsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.861
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.1 6 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 stawns in Corpus

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Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
hink mibbe the 'N' in N*Sync stawns fur 'Ned'. - on page 10
uire, He nods tae confirm. He stawns up an the lads aw hit the dec on page 14
t's way up. Over Mo's shooder stawns Dolly wi a stupit judgemental on page 15
Huey joost stawns in the middle ae the stage wa on page 26

4 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
s lookin at me noo. Mah uncle stawns up an spins roon as if he's g on page 76
He stawns back up an grabs the sword af on page 175

2 matches

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