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The word 'gers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 gers in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
a Glasgow area born lad & ex Gers player! Considered it - of c(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
omin up easter road efter the gers beat them and smashin awe the (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Go the Gers! Yas ya beauty! Rangers wur b on page
Go the Gers! It's been absolutely pishin on page 70

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the Government figures cried GERS shair mak it look like this m on page 127

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
eh speirt, whit gers ye stick in on page 63

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
re yist tae be a joke aboot a Gers player bein asked bi the wait(2020)

@pmcm1355 tweeted
siller tae spend in Scotland? GERS figures are only relevant tae (2022) twitter link

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