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Use in varieties of Scots

guru Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.8 1.6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1311 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of guru in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a fashion guru tutor. on page 65

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Shawlands. He’s a mad yoga guru - gies it aw the patter aboo
much for coming Mr. Faraday, Guru Dhadakata dil looks forward t
‘Is the eh. . . Guru in?’ ah sais tae her. Nora,
‘So Archie. . . or is that Guru Dai - quiri?’ ah sais, smu
ed cocktail. My yogic name is Guru Dhadakata dil.’ he sais, de
7 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he yett, it sayed in Hindi ‘Guru Dr Bhatnagar Ashram’, bit i
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
best aff takin it oer tae the Guru oan the Sou Side. Ah knew he
key he’d moved oan tae the Guru, which he’d taken oan the c
2 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
– some kyn o releegious “guru”.
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Mark Bolton, my storm petrel guru fae RSPB. Great stories, amaz(2019) search twitter