A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gaer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gaerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 5
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gaer in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
at we, fir aa wir gaer, noo dönna ken o - on page 13

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
shillin a box for dis iniment gaer - on page 48
"Whit can aa yon green gaer be?" said poor Alice. "An wha on page 52

2 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
weel clear o dem an shot wir gaer. Hoosomivver, we were hardly
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
wis foo o aa kinda hoosehold gaer.
trowe da box wi shoe-cleanin gaer – brushes an tinnies an clo
2 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
de designer fashion an smelly gaer. I hed a skeet o a grain o sc
1 matches

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