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The word 'guru'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guruOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9135
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 46.1 9 1
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 guru in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Mark Bolton, my storm petrel guru fae RSPB. Great stories, amaz(2019)

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
– some kyn o releegious “guru”.
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a fashion guru tutor. on page 65

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he yett, it sayed in Hindi ‘Guru Dr Bhatnagar Ashram’, bit i
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Shawlands. He’s a mad yoga guru - gies it aw the patter aboo
much for coming Mr. Faraday, Guru Dhadakata dil looks forward t
‘Is the eh. . . Guru in?’ ah sais tae her. Nora,
‘So Archie. . . or is that Guru Dai - quiri?’ ah sais, smu
ed cocktail. My yogic name is Guru Dhadakata dil.’ he sais, de
7 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
best aff takin it oer tae the Guru oan the Sou Side. Ah knew he
key he’d moved oan tae the Guru, which he’d taken oan the c
2 matches

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