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The word 'gansh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ganshOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 284.3 10 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gansh in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ere wis a manishee that could gansh, it wis Mrs O'Flaherty ~ she on page 91

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A gormless gansh on page 52

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Ode Tae 2021 , (twitter 2022) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Na, ye gansh! Awa ye scoot!
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
A gansh doon the pub toul me that Bel (2018) twitter link
re an prood o the crabbit oul gansh! @Pmacgiollabhain https://t.c (2016) twitter link
te Baith a bit like eejits! A gansh blethers a lot; glipe is like (2014) twitter link
I'm tongue in cheek, but no a gansh. Read the wee blog or DM : ). (2014) twitter link
reyabbey: wha but a coof or a gansh would caa Haird Breid Raa, No (2014) twitter link
and 5 other occurrences.