A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gawston Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20.8 33.2 0 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences6967 0 0 0 2 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of gawston 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
'Oh, sae ye're a Gawston lass then... we dinnae see mo on page 68
the legs for it - ower by at Gawston!' on page 70

5 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
I bide in Gawston in the auld airt o Ayrshire c on page 11
w the stories o the history o Gawston, the Valley and Kyle that I r on page 15
arish when I wis growin up in Gawston, that cam a puckle year later on page 19
the tale o the decline o the Gawston Geggie - the Picture Hoose w on page 20
ane o God's ain lang forsaken Gawston weans. I run roun the Toon, a on page 21
Also on pages 23
50 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
udoun Avenue up the scheme in Gawston - the hoose I wis born in - (2020) search twitter
bool, or a totie wee bool. In Gawston, the latter wis cried a teake(2020) search twitter
intae the caur. Ba siller in Gawston wis only yaised in a rhyme wh(2020) search twitter
o the twa best big sisters in Gawston, Derval an the haill wide war(2020) search twitter
art. The rhymin o Exhaustin & Gawston is up there wi Friedrich Niet(2020) search twitter
and 7 other occurrences.

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ye richtly say, no sae bad in Gawston an the Valley when Ah bade th(2020) search twitter
auners tae sae mony forby the Gawston chiel (2020) twitter link