A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'geir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
geirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1173
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 18 7 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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 geir in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
gate wi rydein geir, mountit on a strong garron,
Embro, aw the ither geir at the Inglish sein as haein
geir or ye’l suin regrait the ti
geir wes suin muntit on a braw rid
t in anither man’s guids an geir fur it wes ti sauf Tammas
7 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
rms a kenspekkil meith in yer geir. A palliasse on the tither ha on page 1
il, an A pensie-lik bouned ma geir an arreinged ma claes. Bi wey on page 5
an aince mair laded hir wi ma geir. The fauldit palliasse, ma py on page 6

4 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
he duties peyable on guids an geir. But abuin aw, for the faimly on page 40
han a body that haed guids an geir an land dee'd, it wis the ord on page 51

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
- for tae keep tentie o oor geir, tae plan gauin the messages, on page 4

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
akkis possessionis guidis and geir and on na wayis to be molesti on page 23

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
unt throu pairts o the landin geir meltin awa. It lastit less no
1 matches

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