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The word 'gawston'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gawstonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus20.8694
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 587.2 55 2
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 gawston in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
'Oh, sae ye're a Gawston lass then... we dinnae see mo on page 68
the legs for it - ower by at Gawston!' on page 70

5 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
I bide in Gawston in the auld airt o Ayrshire c on page 11
w the stories o the history o Gawston, the Valley and Kyle that I r on page 15
arish when I wis growin up in Gawston, that cam a puckle year later on page 19
the tale o the decline o the Gawston Geggie - the Picture Hoose w on page 20
ane o God's ain lang forsaken Gawston weans. I run roun the Toon, a on page 21
Also on pages 23
50 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
udoun Avenue up the scheme in Gawston - the hoose I wis born in - (2020)
bool, or a totie wee bool. In Gawston, the latter wis cried a teake(2020)
intae the caur. Ba siller in Gawston wis only yaised in a rhyme wh(2020)
o the twa best big sisters in Gawston, Derval an the haill wide war(2020)
art. The rhymin o Exhaustin & Gawston is up there wi Friedrich Niet(2020)
and 7 other occurrences.

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ye richtly say, no sae bad in Gawston an the Valley when Ah bade th(2020)
auners tae sae mony forby the Gawston chiel (2020) twitter link