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The word 'gamble'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gambleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gamble in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
cowth fur mistak. The biggest gamble he'd iver taen wis merryin Je
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
It's a gamble, bit aa might hae a chunce if on page 99

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ng another go. Aye, ah like a gamble as much as the nixt degenerat on page 25
Except, of course, unless we gamble. Efteraw, the system is desig on page 60

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
erm-wrassle wi him either, or gamble for preens, or challenge him
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Granda Jock Taks a Gamble on page 42

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o confident are thae fowk o a gamble on Labour i 2020 (or suiner)
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
is still rife, so it's a huge gamble. Stey hame an watch Netflix.(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
boot the Ulster novels o John Gamble an James McHenry speak braid
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
n_Malcolm @WJProgressive John Gamble, fae Strabane wi "loyalist" i (2015) twitter link
UlsterScots dialogue fae John Gamble o Stabane's "Charlton" (1823) (2016) twitter link