A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

geegaws Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1 7.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences82 5 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of geegaws in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
She micht be deckt oot in geegaws lik the Queen o Sheba, on page 113

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
for the hunners o ower-priced geegaws.
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
al scuttle, an a hantle ither geegaws frae mantle an press. Minnie
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
geegaws strung tae his dowp, an ilkie
Mistress MeGinty’s twa geegaws, her twa china dugs.
rdre the Deer fan the pyock o geegaws richt eneuch, bit oh the trib
es, sweeties, comics an ither geegaws. He tichtened his neive roon
4 matches

Ulster

Smyth, Anne I Corinthians 13, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster, prose
ed, bot, A buckt oot weans’ geegaws.
1 matches

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