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The word 'gen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
genOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.3 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
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) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 199.9 11 2

Occurrences of gen in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
k ta splinter da raem-calm Vågen. on page 25

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
going amateur as well now - gen up - welcome aboard lads - (2020) twitter link
ulusManiac up to 9 now - aye gen up - caw canny n enjoy ur da (2020) twitter link
used tae have a twitter page gen up lol (2020) twitter link
d fir life fae pie n bovvy - gen up lol (2021) twitter link

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
he non-spikkers (mainly first gen non-spikkers, in my experienc(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Aye, gen up? When wis this?’ ah sais
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Gen up, lemme take a selfie!
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
Emma @jackiepatie So much fer Gen Z bein mair eco-freendly an s(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
A gen hir yin, they gien him twa, on page 120

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Whut thou hast wern gen tae thee on page 32

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
An future genérations tae Wull lairn aboot on page 66
'This is tha genération that Daes eftér him on page 70

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
That made fowerteen genèrations ïn aa frae Abraham on page 1
Day ïll =o Reckonin wi thïs genération an the'll Nat condemn on page 9
me, a puir sarvin lass, an aa genèrations frae noo on wull caa on page 70
Man, wull be a sign tae thïs genèration ïn tha same wye. Tha on page 90

9 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Reegistrar Genèral, Norlin Airlann
Whut wye’s yer halth in genèral?
2 matches

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