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The word 'gel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 43.4 8 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 gel in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
or hair-do's pink an green Aa gel't an spiky on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
urn. Bought hissell some hair gel, combat troosers an a leather on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
t wae his aftershave and hair gel. Suddenly, Aldo flings his le on page 131

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
is height. It was laggered in gel, it looked like his hair hudn
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hair cuts wae the fancy hair gel - n a genuinely think - poo (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Oi! Watch the gel, you! Aye, they wur bang oot on page 29

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ld an unshackled fae the hair gel that usually maintains some s
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
worsen,” it reads. “Hand gel will be dispensed throughout
d see if ah can get some haun gel.
and spot the Holy Grail: haun gel. Ya dancer. Ah walk inside. T
The hauf empty bottle o haun gel in the hoose isnae lastin me
k is turnt, ah swipe the haun gel fae the counter. The wumman w
6 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
he wife to get is some shower gel and she appears wi an XL Lynx(2018)