A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

guisers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 1.1 8 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences82 5 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 2 4 1

Occurrences of guisers in Corpus

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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

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

Doric

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

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

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

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

Shetland

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