A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gather Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 4.1 3 49.7 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences178 2 5 0 0 2
Number of authors14 8 2 3 1

Occurrences of gather in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'll dae, ah say. 'Right boays gather roon, here's the plan...' on page 24

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ramshackle chairs as we could gather. There's a bar stool, a plast on page 32

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
She gather'd up the bag o socks on page 18

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e greetit him pleasantly.“l gather you’ve been busy with this
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
doac and ah take a moment tae gather ma thoats. Tryin and failin t
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
say.. A bit o' a lie doon tae gather yer thoughts?... ??... Person (2023) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
riends Nae time for stoor tae gather ???? (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
unday and up to 50 people can gather at a place of worship - onyb (2021) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
her childhood; an how she wid gather aboot her ither peedy bairns, on page 121

1 matches

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
tumbled aff the brig a’ the gather
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
So they gather stoor and cobwebs in a cupboa on page 44
We gather at the Parish Hall dressed in on page 70

2 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
le Banks thats far easier tae gather an put ap whin the sea washes
Weel they meed a start tae gather tang, an sune hid wis gaan ap
2 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
d take a good peedie while to gather that much smaller stuff here(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Wi rhythm gather pace agin on page 29
Gather goold til hae some fun, on page 37

2 matches

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