Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gyaain	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	26.5	0	0	0	494.1	0	0
Number of occurrences	85	0	0	0	85	0	0
Number of authors	4				4

Occurrences of gyaain in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
himsel, "Oh dear-a-dear! A'm gyaain ta be ower late!" (lookin bac on page 7
winderin foo on aert shö wis gyaain ta win oot ageen. on page 8
ee meenits ta see if shö wis gyaain ta get ony peerier: shö felt on page 13
"Whit I wis gyaain ta say," said da Dodo, soondi on page 27
said Alice tae hersel, "ta be gyaain errands for a rabbit! Dinah'l on page 34
Also on pages 38, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 62, 71, 76, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 91, 95, 103, 104, 112, 119, 125
37 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
k pains ower dat as if it wis gyaain ta staand fur all eternity, i on page 3
deeid, an dan Willie startit gyaain, an it wis nae time till dey on page 4
issed dir nane a yun nonsense gyaain on in Pitt Lane," shü wid sa on page 5
da day at da Brakes croft is gyaain ta be wrocht again. on page 9
hame wi her boys, an John is gyaain aroond lack a dug wi twa tail on page 12
Also on pages 15, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 37, 40, 41, 47, 51, 53, 55, 64, 71, 72, 76
42 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an gyaain dwinin on page 64
ivery day o her life til gyaain twafaald. on page 66
gyaain tae da guttin whin neist sais on page 67
yet dy mind is eident, gyaain sixty tae da dizzen, on page 86

4 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
e, ‘Foo far aff wis da boys gyaain?’ He lookit at me sam as I
1 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
ta keep wir wirds an grammar gyaain.(2019) search twitter