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The word 'galluses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gallusesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of galluses in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r job himsel if he lowsed his galluses in the byre. Faith, he michtn
uggit doon ower his lugs. His galluses wadna bide buttoned, an Matty
it. He jist his tae tweak his galluses an she lies doon. It's a winn
3 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
in a fite sark wi nae collar, galluses, an tackety buits. There wis on page 51

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
akes ye grouw a beard or weer galluses(2020)

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
eein Christopher Robin's blue galluses again. He'd ainly ever seen t on page 64

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
wi words like poke, redd up, galluses an haet. I even cam across a on page 10

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
bly-jock, claes, cloot, coof, galluses, grosset, hems, hoolet, lum,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
n thairs naewhaur tae pit yer galluses". on page 16

1 matches

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