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The word 'gerbil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gerbilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gerbil in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
17. The Tale o Geordie the Gerbil
Geordie the Gerbil glowered ben the bars o his r
watchin TV again. Geordie the Gerbil hidna
an forgotten aa aboot the wee gerbil. Geordie wisna new an
aff yer dowp an clean oot yer gerbil.”
7 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
but it's aaricht, he went tae gerbil heaven happy. Look! A big che on page 60
nister's ower busy tae bury a gerbil. The gairden will dae, but ye on page 64

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
pe a pet, like a hamster or a gerbil, but she bit the heid aff me on page 169

1 matches

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