A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gestured Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 4.6 3 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences129 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of gestured in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
He gestured the wey ti a great muckle con on page 77

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Paul began whisperin and gestured fur me tae come closer. So's on page 32
and friendly voice. She then gestured tae the mysterious south Asia on page 189

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
intae the silver tray. Granny gestured tae the pile o rusty two penn on page 31
rled wan o ma broon curls. He gestured fur me tae move oantae the ne on page 57

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
lk white fir centeries.” He gestured aroond the singil ruim that d
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
The wumman gestured tae Beatrice tae turn roon, a
o sweeties - the Pandit had gestured til him tae buy somethin fae
Derriakin gestured tae her tae gang, sae Beatric
3 matches

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
gied Blair a cheeky grin, an gestured wi a nod o his heid tae follo on page 76

1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
ele opened it, in you come he gestured, ah could see the Mole bent o
1 matches

Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Wee Broon Hen, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
ilin pulled the lid open, and gestured over tae me
1 matches

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