A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

girny Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0 3 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences50 2 1 2 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of girny in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
i his faither lippen tae him, girny an dweeble; life withoot his
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ike the coo’s tail, grumfy, girny, ill-naturet, an gurly. He tr
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@helenmoncrieff Girny Whelks! yins very good. Hid's(2020) search twitter

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
girny pleepan O. Learn it weel. on page 24

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
l. My late friend called dem 'Girny whelks' because of da look o (2020) search twitter

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