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The word 'guisers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guisersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 guisers in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a bakers, musicians, drivers, guisers, dancers, soupsteerirs, teapo(2014)

Mid Northern A

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
Or Guisers an a pucklie pumpkin seeds?
But the guisers that got fitiver they winted
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e sae they didnae hiv tae gie guisers galshiks and smacherry or sil(2018)

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
l efter 8 by which time a the guisers were awa hame. I shall jist h(2011)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
mither's line. I aye gie tae guisers - keepin awa the bogles is a(2020)

Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Wi a scrape o the pen, the guisers drappit the lee that they’d
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
hantit ‘Please tae help the guisers, we wull sing ye a bonnie wee
1 matches

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