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The word 'gads'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gadsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gads in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
i was just a peerie bit sick. Gads above (2019) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Gads min. Fa agrees? https://t.co/(2020)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
day. Jist in time for broth. Gads! So I only hae ma Nintendo, t
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Gads min. Cannae thole at nigglin on page 98

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
heel for me nae a Dock slice gads(2020)
@LeftPeggers @AllieRenison Gads(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@PatersonStan Gads min(2019)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DoricPhrases Oh, gads sakes! At'll fair mak ye blec(2018)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
“Gads, whae’s farted? That’s st
1 matches

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