A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gu'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
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 1.3 1 1
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 gu in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
Alba Gu Brath...free Scotland come oa (2022) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'Welcome to Aberdeen. Fàilte Gu Aberdeen,' it said. Weel, Ah' on page 42

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ToddMSP, (her tablet's nae as gu(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@glasgowcathcart Gu dearbh! Lack of attention is (2020)