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The word 'guards'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guardsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11311
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 15.3 6 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of guards in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Guards the pathway bae himsel on page 63

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ah notice yin ae the security guards sizin me up. These cunts alwe on page 122

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
n front eh them. The security guards were stawndin there n looked
e by shouting at the security guards, he goes to throw a punch at
2 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ado. When they got there the guards werenae wantin tae let them i
ed oan the waterworks and the guards (wha couldnae thole aa the gr
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@YellowCube7 these r security guards - chubby checker n the fat b (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
id be better aw his lane, his guards keepin a fair way ahent him s on page 17

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
on like as he micht bolt. The guards aroon thaim raised thair wapp
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
imes when they’d been armed guards at conventicles. Modern conve

@pmcm1355 tweeted
threatenin thum wi the Scots Guards... if Putin dis a wee quick G (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
, she'd be informing security guards "They are very well behaved c (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
unner the nebs o the English guards yin nicht. Montgomery put O'N
1 matches

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