A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gourd Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences50 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors1 1

Occurrences of gourd in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ckle sumph an nae haen took a gourd wi her tae full. Fegs! A pooc
ritch tree, cairryin a meikle gourd aneth her airm.
set her hairt oni fullin her gourd wi gowd, sae skreichs oot: 'D
the auld greedy wummin an her gourd ooto its tapmaist boos richt
day, yon auld wife inside her gourd, paiddlin an paiddlin an paid
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