Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

geg	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.7	0	0	0	0	0	66.4
Number of occurrences	15	0	0	0	0	0	15
Number of authors	4						4

Occurrences of geg in Corpus

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Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A cleg's nae geg, nor midgies tae. on page 37

1 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
"Ach, yer a quare geg, Hughie, "said Wullie, "That on page 19
r crack, fur y ir aye a quare geg, Rab, an tha place jist isnae on page 26

2 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
al continuum think it a quare geg tae crack that Ulster-Scots i
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
cairryin on like weans. Quare geg this #politics #pmqs http://t (2014) twitter link
#pmqs yesterday - thon was a geg! (2014) twitter link
e the theatre - it's a quare geg: a wheen o good yarns. #ulste (2014) twitter link
cratur mysel. He was a quare geg. (2016) twitter link
think these yins are a quare geg - fae Guild Hall, L'Derry... (2017) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.