A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sten'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5154
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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) 199.9 11 1

Occurrences of sten in Corpus

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Shetland

Mainland, Jim Performance (After Les Murray), (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
eky taand ida heevins’ hert-sten,
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a trig bleck sten-gun fae parcels on page 43
his sten-gun clicks but doesna shoot on page 44

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
but the' dïnnae see; the' lïsten, but the' dïnnae unnèrstan. on page 82
ntae tha apen. Mine hoo ye lïsten. Tha yins that haes wull be g on page 83
Sinn, tha Yin A hae chose. Lïsten tae hïm!" Whan tha voice hae on page 86
Lïsten here, ye ir ïn for bother, P on page 90
Lïsten, freens, dïnnae be feart o t on page 91
Also on pages 98, 106, 107, 109, 112
11 matches

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