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The word 'gird'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
girdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15483
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 62.8 47 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 gird in Corpus

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General Central

Johnston, Mary Lallans 73 - Back-Eyn, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
it's time ti rowe oor ain gird; on page 70

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ntil't. We bide in ae sma Sun Gird that's on the end o ane o the
n. It wis the stert o oor Sun Gird.
the ither planets in oor Sun Gird. It haes thon Muckle Rid Plou
e winds in the hail o oor Sun Gird.
eawa an syne we gae ayont its gird intae the Oort Clood.
43 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
it that ilka warld in oor Sun Gird haed fowk intil’t an set oo
ther the warlds o oor ain sun gird cuid uphaud life.
tae keek oot weel by this Sun Gird an see whither the micht be,
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Or some bit bairn wid want a gird an cleek: on page 22

1 matches

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