A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gaur'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gaurOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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 gaur in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
t suggestions wid ye like tae gaur for Doric Phrases?(2014)
p open a jar i' Ragu sauce an gaur a lovely Spag Bog!(2014)
s wi ma last sexist tweet tae gaur up fur it ah bought ma quine (2015)
t ma ain denner - ah get tae gaur sandwiches like this! https:/(2018)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
o clock the morn's morn I'll gaur you tell a lee, in spite o ye on page 90

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
fan ye’ve lernt mair sense, gaur ye groo.
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
the sausages were enough tae gaur ye cowk an she wid rather hae on page 16

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
feel sorry fir some fowk. Wid gaur ye greet. https://t.co/J0lq10(2020)