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The word 'guan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 43.8 4 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 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 guan in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ndered faun the subtitles wiz guan tae appear on The Secret Hist(2014)
for either £10 or £12-50 - guan try! https://t.co/QixpBXC2HP(2016)
Fin is Poirot guan tae turn up? #TheWitnessForTh(2016)
sh Peterhead fur aenly £5 - guan try, abidy is welcomed. https(2017)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Guan tae bed kennin', he'll nae ha on page 13
So easy fan guan aboot fae here an' there. Whi on page 29

4 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
h is why he hever said no tae guan oan holiday wi hur ir his aul on page 63

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
, yer granny cannae knit, yer guan tae jail, with a whale - and(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
But that's no guan tae bother me, on page 16

1 matches

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