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The word 'stv'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stvOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6128
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
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 stv in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
lands and Islands (UHI), BBC, STV, local media ootlets, Aiberde
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah wis on STV North wi ma gorgeous Lyn Gowd(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
k aboot in complouteration wi STV an BBC Scotland.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
STV askit iz whether it wus diffi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
on. Juist shaws somebodie at STV maun hae richt guid taste.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
tae - but never got oan the stv news lol (2020) twitter link
t seen the high street on the stv news - gutted cos a never go (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
eyed and ah’ve fired it oan STV. He rapidly dissolves back in
1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
In STV, fowk gits twa waels, thai ca
1 matches

General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
Ishbel will be on STV news at 10.30 the nicht, spik(2016)
Scots on Scotland Tonight on STV the noo.(2016)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ghUni Funny that. Because the STV news the night showed vans fu(2020)