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The word 'gala'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
galaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71514
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 3
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gala in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
easure hunt part o da village gala #knackered #parentsdidmostoft (2018) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Yesterday at the gala day on page 39

1 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
dun maist eh my life (Wishae, Gala, Langholm, Biggar, Ayr an Edi (2021) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Eftir thi gala day in thi Ferry on page 83

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
taen wi glee. Nouadays we hae gala days an fairmers' mairkets bu on page 30

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
at the Nirski Pailace on this gala evenin wesna in onie wey teip on page 2

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
in doon the days tae the next gala. Anyhin tae distract me fae t on page 37

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
e at the likes o the Gawstoun Gala Day ken exackly hou big a sto on page 7

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@billykayscot tweeted
dae that. Memories o Gawston Gala Day. https://t.co/7VGaHI3Td6(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
er weans, alang tae the Burns Gala day event oan Saturday 25th J (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
Chinese cam ti uis in Gala Academy library. A’d been r
u Teach Yourself Chinese frae Gala Library: A was feelin nearhau
2 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
Gala v Selkirk the nite refereed b(2012)

@officialAliRed tweeted
oulter’s Candy sculptures in Gala earlier, afore getting hugs a(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
green. Ye'd been asked on the gala committee, but ye never wrote on page 78

1 matches

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