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The word 'steven'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stevenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83210
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 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 91.1 20 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of steven in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Steven
Ha! Steven’s yer new granda
Steven
3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
social deprivation. Ma name's Steven Scott, by the wey. Ah'm thirt on page 85

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
character. The Scots o Orgon (Steven McNicoll) an Pernelle (Ann Sc
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
Languages Athort the Warld', Steven Porter taks tent o 'Galician' on page 7

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
i this case), an i Lallans 82 Steven Porter gied us a braw insicht on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
, no by any standard. Alice n Steven Brown ir alcoholics. They hud on page 38

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'It was Steven, wasn't it?' on page 8
neral gist ae the message wis Steven hud some kind ae heart attack on page 9
uth here. You didn't bring up Steven once in our previous sessions on page 10
hin's changed. Ah didnae know Steven. It's lit... when ye hear on on page 11
nnae choose tae lose another. Steven wis jist... a guy that died. on page 12
Also on pages 13, 15, 19, 23, 26, 28
19 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
rns maun win thru, div ye ken Steven Clark's sang "Comin Hame" tha(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ie piece. Shei hed ae pouerfu steven
Auld Mag reponed in ae lood steven, “Howt,
an wi ae lood steven she sayed til ‘um, “Yer n
3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
yer Ulster Scots vocabulary, Steven! (2016) twitter link