The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Stirling | 4 | 1488 (chekker); 1489 (culverin); 1622 (charmer); 1650 (blude-) |
| Sterling | 1 | 1588 (commissionar) |