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The word 'stoat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stoatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52516
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 50.2 10 5
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 4
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 stoat in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
eight inches fae the grund. A stoat darts doon a ditch. A hunder
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
n very similar style here fae stoat(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
dagloop Futret is a weasel or stoat see http://t.co/m1iYwliJMw di(2014)

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
eid. That brick hard ye could stoat it aff the pavement an stert on page 7

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
I stoat an bounce the ba
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hanan an the three ae them aw stoat aboot the school wi thir nose on page 169

1 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
e speeders yer kin squash, an stoat and flush doon th cludgie. At
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
r pet Kitchen Devil a walk. A stoat up tae him but ma swagger mak on page 12
there anymore. Yi cannae just stoat aboot ootside yir ain area ab on page 17

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
r there 'ae start a four 'oor stoat: the Auld Glesga bein demolis on page 3

4 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
nt's shouting as ah watch him stoat through the scheme fae mah ro on page 1

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
reak and twist above us as we stoat intae the park, their barren,
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
aurus Ayeways yaised thi wurd stoat meanin a donder or stroll. We (2021) twitter link

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
id." Wi that, he stairtit tae stoat awa taewards the hoose. "Mind on page 110

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The Tod an the Stoat on page 52
Then Mrs Stoat sighed sair an said: on page 53

5 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
A sayed, Jennet wis fond aw a stoat aboot the hills whur she stoa
1 matches

@LowEndJardo tweeted
pure vegan places but I wanty stoat intae 7 spices or boyywood sp (2021) twitter link

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