A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

The word 'gordons'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gordonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5168
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 gordons in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uttit it wis wi deid an deein Gordons. Fit the fecht wis aboot Minn
nie cudna richt myne, fur the Gordons war aye fechtin somebody, bit
the colour serjeants frae the Gordons trystit the loons tae jyne fu
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n the line at Waterloo wi the Gordons and mair by luck than onythin
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
time he wis in Cyprus wi the Gordons. " Aye" he thocht oot
wis a manoeuvre wi the Gordons she hid tae be teen alang tae
Gordons did there work. The heid Gord
hat very nicht twa platoons o Gordons set oot wi trucks, wi the las
d nine. In a stracht line the Gordons
6 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Wonder if we came up when the Gordons left the borders(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
romantic. Ah love aw that Gay Gordons an Dashin White Sergeants an on page 22
u an Chris Rice daein the Gay Gordons, ah said. That's a shite phot on page 152

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ran Scotland United (the twa Gordons they were cried) resignit on on page 108

1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e’s been told to do the Gay Gordons with the girl with the warty
1 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
jodinks79 @star_welsh Nae Gay Gordons fir a wee while gorgeous ???? (2022) twitter link