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The word 'ganzie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ganzieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4149
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 22.9 7 4
MNB - Mid Northern B 393.1 3 3
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ganzie in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
ona, can I finish knittin dis ganzie afore da pandemic is by we or (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
y steppit. Mooch fand an auld ganzie o Mistress McTavish’s there
ganzie wi matchin brikks. Gracie Gir
her mam, “Ye LIKE yer reid ganzie an yer reid
3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Haein tae put on a ganzie in July is nae richt(2014)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Fits wi I ganzie unner a jaiket? It's bilin'(2020)
@Ali_Leith But a ganzie unner a jaiket. Fits he think(2020)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
zie" in ither words knittin a ganzie. (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
thick stockens and put on ma ganzie. I pulled ma tooorie oor ma h
1 matches

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
wrapped up with ma bunnet and ganzie. It wis Monday and it hid bee
1 matches

Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ked out ma best breeks my new ganzie and my brand new jaicket. Loo
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Mahatma Ghandi ganzie, gey gypit Thursday. Min, ye' on page 144
lie Madden showed aff her new ganzie that she bocht frae a roup on page 176
lie Madden showed aff her new ganzie that she bocht frae a roup on page 202

3 matches

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