A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

girnie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of girnie in Corpus

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Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
s wi their granda, mithers an girnie-tikes, scuil-bairns an maiste on page 58

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
tae haul a raither stoory and girnie-faced parrot doon fae the Jum on page 42

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
k. "Get yersel doon there, ya girnie wee nyatf!' on page 30

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
ain. The muckle big man had a girnie face on him as he streetched on page 46

1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ay fairly," Alice began, in a girnie tone, "an they all fecht so m on page 81

1 matches

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