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The word 'geid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
geidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.5536
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 140.6 43 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 geid in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Bit I doot I geid too far the day that I wis as on page 128

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
tarten tae moov. Eit aat Skim geid thi aul mayjer mair wuty, fin on page 6
or tak a munth or twa, an we geid tae Boddim sqweel thi gither. on page 9
naye eit," weel we aat, Baggy geid reed maad an thocht he wid ge on page 10
ay a look. Twa or thri weik's geid buiy, an we didna seem tae ge on page 11
y did Jim, an fitiver wuiy we geid, Jim weis richt eit wer starn on page 12
Also on pages 17, 18, 19, 26, 27, 31, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 51, 55, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 65, 69
43 matches

General Northern

Cameron, Douglas Tales Fae The Doric Side - Ma New Dug, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
file he geid awa on page 46

2 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
Sumb'dy geid me rat stinkin' heid caul' in
od; bit rest assured, sumb'dy geid me it.
2 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
ma vest An’ the fat lip she geid me wis a doozy. Flyin’ Fish
s scratchin' et ma door Sae a geid it some mulk lit a'd done bef
An' a geid thum a len’ e' ma snooker c
3 matches

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
dson’s bakery in toun. Cook geid me tuppence fur masel even th
1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
Jack tuk reteirment an geid up the wark o the dictionar i on page 59

1 matches

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