A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gads Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 0.5 10.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences91 7 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 1 6 1

Occurrences of gads in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
“Gads, whae’s farted? That’s st
1 matches

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Gads min. Cannae thole at nigglin on page 98

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
day. Jist in time for broth. Gads! So I only hae ma Nintendo, t
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Gads min. Fa agrees? https://t.co/(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
heel for me nae a Dock slice gads(2020) search twitter
@LeftPeggers @AllieRenison Gads(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@PatersonStan Gads min(2019) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DoricPhrases Oh, gads sakes! At'll fair mak ye blec(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
i was just a peerie bit sick. Gads above (2019) twitter link