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The word 'stovies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stoviesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53516
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 4
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 35.9 7 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 stovies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
yn fin you eesed te bi a real stovies, beetroot an a glaiss o milk, on page 35

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
It wis a gran Dunce, an gran stovies. In fit wis mair, Grandad wis on page 94

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
er cookin an bakin: porridge, stovies, hen-broth, clootie-dumplin, on page 90

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the sink, stukken wi birssled stovies, an Meg Ramsay wis new back f
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ous poll. Yis should aa vote. Stovies. Fit div yi hae wi them? http(2019)
I'd splash some I iss ower ma stovies.(2019)
Glasgow. Some loon wis sellin Stovies in his cafe. Fan it arrived, (2019)
er day. Iss wis passed off as Stovies in a Glasgow cafe fan I wis d(2019)
s shielding. We've bin makkin stovies, stews and curries for him. W(2020)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
So gie me stovies, gie me rawns on page 150

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
almcdermid @ProfJoSharp Sappy stovies second day wid dry up a bitti(2020)
@Gaydog221170 Stovies a deen ?(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
tie Bar. Nae Mince n Tatties, Stovies or Black Pudding! And yon pri(2016)
new year's Day! Now, far's ma stovies ?? https://t.co/C0JjOCUGOX(2019)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
take away places up here dae stovies wi mince. But aht's because i(2019)
etter than savage meat in yer stovies.??(2019)
@Chazzbat And stovies made wi savages or corned bee(2019)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
ans for his tea o spinach and stovies. on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
mony receipts still tells us. Stovies is a guid dish even made wi j
ie, sheip'sheid broth, limpet stovies an bermeal bannocks, we cuid
2 matches

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
yesterday’s left-ower stovies or day-afore-peyday pan-haggi
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
stovies on page 86

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
STOVIES on page 8
he fridge, grabbin the pot ay stovies an peel the clingfilm aff it, on page 10
doon the cutlery an plates ay stovies oan the wee coffee table in t on page 13

4 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ae the club. Ah’ve a pot ay stovies left oer fae yesterday in the
he fridge, grabbin the pot ay stovies an peel the cling-film aff it
doon the cutlery an plates ay stovies oan the wee coffee table in t
3 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
etter and hetter like a pot o stovies on the bile. The English teac on page 37

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e could get sausages, we haed stovies. The anely fish we saw war sa
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
inclair @KennyFarq Ye can mak stovies wi ony meat ye haed on yer st(2020)

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