A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gabs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of gabs in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ace-doun, for cleft skulls an gabs gapin in bluidy daith were ge on page 53
keep their heids doun, their gabs steikit, thole aa the snash a on page 58

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
the wind tae ither sea-maws' gabs on page 39

1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
a tha fruit + rhubairb, guiss-gabs, an a wheen o ploom trees, cu on page 16

1 matches

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