A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gean Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.2 3.2 6.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences106 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of gean in Corpus

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Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
At Lone Tree, a gean shelled tae a scrunt, the haa on page 8

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ma chakks will gan rede as a gean, on page 52

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
scart the bloom fae the gean trees on page 46

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
sweeter than gean or slae, on page 51

1 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 73 - The Stranger, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
the tither hand, the gean; on page 60

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
awa bonniely in the gairden. Gean is ane o a wheen Scots words (2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
His da lifted a gean fae the fruit bowl. “Fit co
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ferm. Its kail yaird hid twa gean trees in the neuk o the kaily
o birdies' feet. Ower bi the gean in a neuk o the girse wis the
rifts o icy snaa, a craa on a gean branch abeen them opened an s
3 matches

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