A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

girn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words18.8 13.6 33 19.9 17.4 51.7 8.9
Number of occurrences6127 22 2 3 5 2
Number of authors30 14 7 2 2 3 2

Occurrences of girn in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Nae eithlie ettle wi a muckle girn oan hes face. Ah cuid hae tui on page 27

3 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the urge to girn and to haiver and blether on page 8
aboot wather, jist girn. on page 16
t pey nae heed tae thaim whae girn on page 46
An moan an girn aboot their hair on page 49

4 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
dae whit I hke wi. I shouldna girn, on page 12

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
and smiled a terrible, toothy girn as he heezed the screichin Su on page 47

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Tae girn or flyte. on page 78

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
er got drookit, but he didnae girn aboot it because sodgers didn on page 75

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
doon thon road. He gied a wee girn ... It wad mak a guid story t on page 16

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
awa. She didna girn aboot it, her time wis by: sh
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
The Denner Wifie's Girn (see page 8)
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Less Trauchle Nor A Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
buik o hivvenly beins, an her girn wad lichtit up a pit shaft. B
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
some modren Scots enthusiasts girn for the auld lang syne whan t
1 matches

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
cairt it as juist anither SNP girn? I jalouse the’r fowk like
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
x their natural span. I dinna girn mysel, sin I’m ane o the so
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
but the Inglis king took the girn that the Scots wis lichtin on
feed him for a week, but will girn aboot the want o meal. The sc
ns mair on drink thay shuidna girn aboot the want o meat. Fowk w
3 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Lat’s stairt we a wee girn o ma ain. Creative Scotland (
1 matches

Briggs, Susi O Rabbie, I hae seen the day, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Girn and scrieve o love nae mair
1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
the urge to girn and to haiver and blether
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
er @DaveVallis I'll hae a wee girn an say it is a muckle fash th(2020) search twitter

@fairpechtoot tweeted
Only bampots will girn about BBC’s poetic delight |(2017) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
rt ye get in shops noo-a days Girn't Meg as she laid aff er ches on page 15

1 matches

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
A nae langer girn fir Yer tig on page 3

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
na keen on braes. Ye eesed te girn fin wi'd te ging uphill, so A on page 21

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ayed wad bide clear. Ye cudna girn if it derkened, ye jist got s
s Baxter, frae Lower Kilrogie girn tae her man. 'An button yer s
2 matches

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
he wey you’d scrieve it, or girn far there’s a ‘f’ an yo
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
wiz. Noo it wiz a greet an a girn tae get yokit an michty but t
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
d inno her schulebag, she’d girn, “Oh I canna ging tae schul
osy wad reeshle her leaves an girn an wish
22. The Tale o Gracie Girn
Gracie Girn wis a wee quine wi the physog
wi teethache, Gracie Girn wis NIVER pleased. Fowk said
14 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@shooglie Nithing ti girn aboot(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a tell-tale girn or sibling smile? on page 15

1 matches

Hume, Caroline Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Moan, girn and pleep on page 126

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
r shö got fae da Moose wis a girn. on page 31
tail whin he's plaised. Noo I girn whin A'm plaised an wig me ta on page 65

2 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
fed/ill-trikkit! I only mind 'girn' bein used for dat specific c

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
tae girn at progress, but there's ae t on page 131
But I'll no girn, Maister Burns, fir eftir a on page 145

2 matches

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the monkeys girn thair dule. on page 38

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The monkeys girn dulesum abuin.
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
e fash o the “Scots Creenge Girn”, hae yersel ae leuk it Dr.
1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An mak ye jalouse "Whut a girn!!" on page 20

1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tha demise o oor ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
m A in thaur een, jest an oul girn wae very little schulin an o
1 matches

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