A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'geg'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gegOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7154
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
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) 153.7 3 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 154.6 11 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of geg in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
"Ach, yer a quare geg, Hughie, "said Wullie, "That on page 19
r crack, fur y ir aye a quare geg, Rab, an tha place jist isnae on page 26

2 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
al continuum think it a quare geg tae crack that Ulster-Scots i
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A cleg's nae geg, nor midgies tae. on page 37

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
cairryin on like weans. Quare geg this #politics #pmqs http://t (2014) twitter link
#pmqs yesterday - thon was a geg! (2014) twitter link
e the theatre - it's a quare geg: a wheen o good yarns. #ulste (2014) twitter link
cratur mysel. He was a quare geg. (2016) twitter link
think these yins are a quare geg - fae Guild Hall, L'Derry... (2017) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.