A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gamble Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.1 3 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences116 2 0 0 0 3
Number of authors9 5 2 2

Occurrences of gamble in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ng another go. Aye, ah like a gamble as much as the nixt degenerat on page 25
Except, of course, unless we gamble. Efteraw, the system is desig on page 60

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Granda Jock Taks a Gamble on page 42

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
erm-wrassle wi him either, or gamble for preens, or challenge him
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o confident are thae fowk o a gamble on Labour i 2020 (or suiner)
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
is still rife, so it's a huge gamble. Stey hame an watch Netflix.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
It's a gamble, bit aa might hae a chunce if on page 99

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
cowth fur mistak. The biggest gamble he'd iver taen wis merryin Je
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
boot the Ulster novels o John Gamble an James McHenry speak braid
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@the_gellick tweeted
n_Malcolm @WJProgressive John Gamble, fae Strabane wi "loyalist" i (2015) twitter link
UlsterScots dialogue fae John Gamble o Stabane's "Charlton" (1823) (2016) twitter link

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