A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'giean'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gieanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.242
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central
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 giean in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
he speerd wi concern. "Is hid giean you muckle pain? on page 61

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
u speiran at Gunnie's faimly, giean her news, myndan on only tae on page 63
nie," sheu says, cooriean in, giean a smuthick, no seean the arti on page 111
er side o night, the cruisies giean the wynds a dairker reid fer on page 134

3 matches

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