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The word 'gust'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gustOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41816
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gust in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tled up mild winds, a gentile gust on page 28

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
stled up mild winds, a gentle gust on page 154

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Just bi dat dey wir an extra gust a wind, da porch door crashed on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
wull A droon i the bricht sea-gust o Yer smile on page 3

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
in the chair the gither, en a gust o win an, ey are hingin on li
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
rgettin far I am, catcht wi a gust o farrach.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Hes the clean gust o winter on its lips on page 58

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MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n me. Whin ah felt th' pointy gust o' win`, ah knew 'twas unco a
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hen there wis an extra strang gust o wind an he wis blawn off th on page 68

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
ik a cunnar, dakklin owre the gust, an aye vissiein about him at on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
on his first tassie wi a guid gust. Straucht an haill cam relief on page 140

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Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
tte' wis sic a bonnie name, a gust o chirries in on page 9

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Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
they sense the air, hae a gust on page 32

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Haes the clean gust o winter on its lips on page 74

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
airience smoored his leeberal gust. But James McConechy, a freen on page 69

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South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Nae wind tae gust nor blaw away on page 38

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A gust garred gresses fissle; on page 17

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
atory an pullt the coard as a gust o wind wafted the lectric bul on page 2

1 matches

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