A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'guan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 guan in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ndered faun the subtitles wiz guan tae appear on The Secret Hist(2014)
for either £10 or £12-50 - guan try! https://t.co/QixpBXC2HP(2016)
Fin is Poirot guan tae turn up? #TheWitnessForTh(2016)
sh Peterhead fur aenly £5 - guan try, abidy is welcomed. https(2017)

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
h is why he hever said no tae guan oan holiday wi hur ir his aul on page 63

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
, yer granny cannae knit, yer guan tae jail, with a whale - and(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
But that's no guan tae bother me, on page 16

1 matches

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