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The word 'gowdfish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gowdfishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gowdfish 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
Her wee gowdfIsh Dookers, nocht feedin. The bi
uk o ilkie ee. As Dookers the gowdfish watched, the pearls o watter
t it noo.” An Dookers the gowdfish blew a hale string o bubbles,
gowdfish.”
4 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ish we did hae the ubiquitous gowdfish bowl, sometimes occupied by a
Mairches. They still gied oot gowdfish as prizes and yin or twa wid
r and putting the twa current gowdfish intae it. He also decreed tha
lly when we did come hame the gowdfish were totally broon breid .
4 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ngo and a turtle and a bool o gowdfish and a cage o white mice and a on page 127

1 matches

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