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The word 'gale'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
galeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus20.26731
ORK - Orkney 79.5 8 6
SHD - Shetland 75.6 13 8
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 115.3 26 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 gale in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
That gale rave aff wir byre roof and wi on page 20
cropper, like a haystack in a gale. on page 73

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
open the door tae a forsh ite gale on page 97

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A gale blowin, a boat driftin on page 151

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Howlan Gale on page 136

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
crosses a field in a January gale, eight inches fae the grund.
1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
n oot the cowld an the howlan gale
1 matches

Shetland

Hall, Nat nobody remembers the birdman - Hairst, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Shetland, poetry
da next gale, hellery - on page 82

1 matches

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
fae the ootrun in a gale, anither the size on page 19

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
coorse night ootside, a flyin gale fae da nor aest, mair laek da on page 33

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
A gale rase up, da lift gud black on page 59

3 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
a lang lost ghost o da gale o eighty wan.
1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
time hit wis blowin a proper gale. I lookit alang da side o da
, an wan hame safe against da gale an da darkness.
2 matches

Ritch, Paolo A Remembrance Day, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, poetry
Da nineteen hunder gale
1 matches

Sinclair, James Yarnin, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
Wi da gale blawin an a wasterly swell ru
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ed torn ashore fae da weekend gale. The tripawd was happy. https(2020)
"it'll soon ease back down to gale force 8"(2014)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
se at climmed an clung te the gale o the hoose an spicy-smellin on page 88

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
obe mirror. "Ah look like the gale-eyn o a hoose. Aye, aat's fit on page 68

2 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
och watter a gweed ragin an e gale devaallt an aa wis calm. An h on page 93

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
eet deck in the teeth o gurly gale. Sae wretched the voyage hid
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
he hoose and it was howling a gale. It was like I wis walking to
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
id spinning. There’s a fair gale blaaing noo, the kind that’
rotary blades and the strong gale. He has a bag on his back sta
2 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
in, wis graspit by the howlin gale, sent spinnin intae the air l on page 118

3 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Fae the Sooth gale force is the win,
Win gale force says the wifie on TV,
Sooth win gale force hale day dis blaw,
Win noo his turned intae gale force,
En Sooth win, gale force on us gey sair.
11 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Fae the Sooth ere's a howlin gale,
rth win dis blaw the force is gale.
North win gale force it dis blaw,
blaws fae the Wast gey near a gale,
Near gale force win blaws oot o the Was
12 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
th some gusts touching severe gale-force'. Morton tellt me tae b on page 78

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ye can lauch at the gale
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
the teeth o a keen Sou'wester gale on page 98

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Eh thi winds blowin a gale on page 9

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
the gale's teeth sank in you. Imperill on page 77

1 matches

Glasgow

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
It wiz blowin a gale an snowin as well, on page 9

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
t feart, tae the gurlin o the gale amang the tree-taps. on page 124

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
hot water bottle as blowin a gale ootside!....Well a dae live i(2015)
7degrees cauld and blowing a gale ootside tae! Hee hee! xxx???(2016)
it doon and wind is blowing a gale! Me I'm hame in pj's?? XXX(2016)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
gale, on yin o his hooses, is John
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
wi them - half a gale o' wun, on page 31

1 matches

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