A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gypes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.4 0 22.2 0 0 0 14.5
Number of occurrences180 15 0 0 0 3
Number of authors10 7 3

Occurrences of gypes in Corpus

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Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
taun fowk like that. Absolute gypes the lot o them." on page 75

1 matches

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - Oor Grun, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
ignorin us girnin, glakit, gypes. on page 88

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
n bit greed an coorseness. Ye gypes, did him att made e ootside n on page 101
m." An he says till them, "Ye gypes, foo laith ye are tae believe on page 121

2 matches

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
maun think we’re a puckle o gypes!’ Ruaraidh cooried doon, hi
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
unchbag @aberdeentaxi1 Pair o Gypes. I caa it a Buttery, ma pal c(2019) search twitter
@deesidedon @Branson1873 Gypes. Ats fa!(2019) search twitter
nae idea fit they mean. Feel Gypes! https://t.co/bQsz1GfyUf(2019) search twitter
l jist be needin the one eye. Gypes! https://t.co/XMos9d(2020) search twitter
Fa his peas? Gypes, that's fa! https://t.co/HBxR(2020) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
ie1903 ??Fit wid JC say aboot gypes like this? (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@boxertoye Gypes the lot o them(2020) search twitter
@DeesideDon Gypes are oot min and they dinna ke(2020) search twitter
@CantreBreiniol Up the gypes(2020) search twitter
@FitbaGeek Gypes a metre apart(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
r sure. Him an aal them ither gypes at the fectory. Maisie, deat, on page 45

1 matches

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
wi simpler wits, He cracks wi gypes; Oddtimes slams the rich man' on page 59

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
an Ballyclare pubs bunged wi gypes! https://t.co/xQubmpIA5f (2018) twitter link

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