A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'stilled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stilledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stilled in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e's claikin tongue hid tae be stilled tae let the loon get on wi hi
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Stilled at the selsame oor akh, that on page 21

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
an or squeak as normal bit it stilled wi' me, as if sensin somethin
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
o the maze, left or richt, or stilled. on page 81

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
as caumly raised his airms an stilled his fearfu flock wi the Bened on page 36
l the blessin o a short sword stilled their cries. Puir horses whin on page 37

2 matches

General Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
tie thenicht. A mighty voice, stilled. https://t.co/xRgzxmDHr4 (2021) twitter link