Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'ghaistly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

ghaistly	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.1	13	5
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	13.1	4	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	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee
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)	102.5	2	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ghaistly in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fair teen wi the thocht o the ghaistly laidder raxxin frae Heiven ta
n her bowster an dreamt o the ghaistly laidder that raise frae the w
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
bs, thinner than mist. As the ghaistly bunnet meltit awa tae nocht,
n a neuk in a deid feint. The ghaistly veesior hid vanished. Miss Vi
2 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ruined castle o Coull, far a ghaistly bell is heard tae ring fin a on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - David, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, poetry
May his ghaistly fitsteps climm on page 13

1 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
bluid on’t?” bullert the ghaistly voice.
1 matches

West Central

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH
dnae understaun. He spied ten ghaistly fitbaw players, rinnin aboot,
‘Git him!’ screamed yon ghaistly Keeper.
3 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ower fish an fishers, ghaistly shoals come haunt, on page 39

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A'll scrieve tha Scotch that ghaistly yearns on page 27
ae tha gloamin thinkin o thon ghaistly brig on page 54

2 matches