A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gei Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 0.5 0 49.7 0 82.7 4.4
Number of occurrences151 0 5 0 8 1
Number of authors6 1 1 3 1

Occurrences of gei in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
loert, gei us peace, nou hae eh kerrit y on page 66

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
een them terms is). Hid saems gei affens, haer, mibee apees, ta
This faels gei treu tae ekspeereeïns, fir m
rn an ordnir inflooïns, taks gei mukl fek. Bit ir thir onee mo
ch presirvaeshin, bit hid’s gei fikl tae deu, an taks a gei t
fikl tae deu, an taks a gei talentid an treezhird lug fir
5 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hei hed his ain plane, fur ae gei
til ‘um, an askit ‘um tae gei ‘um ae haund wi Yid
ma pynt o view, it’s juist gei hert-heisin n’, tae discern
ae teenager, did ae gei bit o wurk on the Chisholm es
4 matches

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
day and the yins A seen were gei wee. The fella whae was stand
fishermen like him cos it was gei late in the season afore they
2 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
ly @ClashCityClarky That’s a gei guid read in braid Teri ??(2019) search twitter
yClarky Cheers pal - it’s a gei bonnie toun!(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
oysadear, sez I tae ye, it’s gei an hard tae aye be waatchin y(2020) search twitter