A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

giy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.7 0 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1613 0 3 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of giy in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A ken ye're giy scunnert wae ma constant moan on page 12
sounds a wee bit strange and giy hard tae believe on page 63
hurt her cause she really was giy sweet, on page 72
art ae the year, as days were giy dark and the shadows were aw on page 92

4 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ee isnae. Eddie's a ded niys giy ded obliyjin an ees a really on page 41

3 matches

Pennie, Len The year A shouldnae hae had, (tictok 2022) Central - Kilmarnock, poetry
As days were giy dark an the shadows were aw A
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
en mair content in Scots is a giy boost an ats jist fit @handsu(2020) search twitter
BBCMarkMardell @BBCRadio4 Its giy braw tae hae mair Doric an Sc(2020) search twitter
Giy excited tae tune in tae this!(2020) search twitter
I’m GIY tricket tae perform at yon fi(2019) search twitter
This is giy exciting! https://t.co/K8WjDT(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
dad geed tae the toon. It wis giy heavy so I thowt I wid tak th on page 128

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
id wis becis o Caithness bein giy light wae the Gaelic that hid (2021) twitter link
owt lang fur 'ears an hid wis giy peur many a day. Hid will mak(2020) search twitter

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