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The word 'stirling'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stirlingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62816
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 22.6 17 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 stirling in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Glesca, West Dumbartonshire, Stirling, Perth and Kinross, Argyll an
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ah say ah'm fae Stirling, juist passin through. on page 84

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Stirling Bridge on page 42
Thi bridge it Stirling wiz thi target on page 43

3 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
h, towards Glasgow. Then past Stirling, far ma dad pointed oot the W
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
letter from William Tannahill Stirling, New Jersey, to his father, R
Jersey, to his father, Robert Stirling, Waterside Kirkintilloch. See
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
rramuir - on the hills abune Stirling, an barrin their road tae Eng on page 73

1 matches

General Central

McNeil, Andrew Lallans 58 - Carnegie’s Turning, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Go like Stirling or Linlithgow's glory. on page 122

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
In June, SCILT at Stirling University had a modern langu on page 87

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
It's Elsie Stirling's first week at the big schoo on page 1
W.T. Stirling, The Glasgow Herald, 25th Jan on page 32

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
es and crosses. Naeb'dy but a Stirling would be daft enough tae go o on page 59
'It'll be the Stirling's name blackened soon enough. on page 78
'Good morning, Miss Stirling,' the doctor says. on page 85
'Well, Miss Stirling, it looks like it's time to m on page 86

4 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
t Scottish CILT, University o Stirling. Yon project is concerned wi
University o Stirling
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
in the Auld Toun Cemetery in Stirling as weel.

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
r bit Mair South or Aberdeen. Stirling winnae want me back ?? so lik(2020)
@CRobertsonUK Ma hame town of Stirling should be the capital ?? its (2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
o do with James III or IV and Stirling Castle called Michael?(2020)
spectating. But I think still Stirling Station for the win.(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ike previous and next week in Stirling willnae be like Greenock wis. (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
rtannettles13 @GothicaAD Awww Stirling Uni is 10-15 mins fae ma door (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
is bags gin the tourist-aware Stirling Cooncil thocht he shuid; in h on page 84

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wee baldie boy frae Stirling on page 29

1 matches

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