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Use in varieties of Scots

g'wa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 0.5 25.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences181 17 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 1 4

Occurrences of g'wa in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
G'wa ye glaik.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"G'wa!" She powkit a fingir it is b on page 20
"G'wa," snortit Joyce. on page 43
"G'wa," snortit Ronnie. "Far did be on page 51
"G'wa an nae spik dirt. Ah gaed roo on page 85

4 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
rrie hid appeart. He bad them g'wa tae Bethlehem and says, "Gyan on page 8
, "Tell naebody aboot it, bit g'wa an shew yersel tae e meeniste on page 16
lad) "stan up, tak yer bed an g'wa hame wi ye." At att, e lad st on page 17
e yours." Jesus answert him, "G'wa oot o ma sicht, ye deevilock, on page 85
rs aneth me. A says ull een, "G'wa," an awa he goes an till anit on page 91
Also on pages 105, 109, 112
10 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
"G'wa ye eejit, Am nae for aat min! on page 9
So g'wa wi ye, yer a muckle gowk, on page 13

2 matches

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