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The word 'stockins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stockinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71914
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 2
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stockins in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it taenails shinin throwe her stockins. She'd on lipstick an aa - s on page 64
in chokit wi a pair o her ain stockins. It turnt oot aat her real na on page 66

2 matches

South Northern

Robb, Lydia AUNTIE BEAN UNDRESSES, (Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2005 ISBN: 978-0948877698) Doric - Arbroath, poetry
stockins concertina roun her ankles. on page 123

1 matches

General Northern

Wheeler, Leslie Brockit, the Ferm Toon Cat, (Grampian Regional Council 2000) Doric, weans
ise o aa. An Aiberdeen strip, stockins an aa, an spleet new fitba be
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
helpin tae fill oor Yuletide stockins an e'en taen year aboot bein
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
he feeds his shuin, breeks an stockins tae the lowpin lowe. He gaes
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
there on doon she wore green stockins turnt ower at the tap, which on page 77
d like grapefruits inside her stockins. 'Amanda Threip!' she belloch on page 106

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Whaur laddert stockins stop on page 119

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
fur a pair ay black, haud up stockins an a pair ay stilleto heels;
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
watter afore she poued on her stockins an guid shune. The mistress w on page 67
uch linen breeks ower woollen stockins, an a pair o stout broun shun on page 68
that wad mak thaim plaids an stockins an blankets. Lady Margaret cu on page 71

3 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
he Fife kye, an they can knit stockins wi their horns!" The anely ti on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
n oor fur coats buyin up silk stockins an nice scarfs an kid gloves on page 120

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
The stockins war tentilie hung neist the l
An full’t aa the stockins; syne turn’t wi a yark,
2 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
wha wull pit on yer shoes an stockins fur yae noo, dears? A'm sure on page 16

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
railing, tuek aff ma shuin an stockins an tippered ower the peebles.
1 matches

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