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The word 'gaels'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gaelsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71910
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 gaels in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
roups ithin da British Isles: Gaels in Ireland an da nort-wast o on page 14

1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ire. Scots fae the lallans an Gaels fae the heilans o Scotlan tee
rs in Mackay’s regiment wes Gaels. Fae 1626 they focht agin the
his war there were thousans o Gaels an ither Scots at wuid hae ke
3 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
haes aft been said that whan Gaels gied up thair Gaelic in the b
t 65,000 Gaelic speakers, the Gaels haes haed a Gaelic Newspaper
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
y in Scotland apairt frae the Gaels spoke Scots as thair ilka-day
e likes o the Ulster Scots an Gaels, haes haed millions o punds g
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
wul be kirsent the Tung o the Gaels. on page 12

1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
en forcefu clearance o native Gaels. Wi ilka moment we spend dumf
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
in Scotland - Angles, Brets, Gaels, Pechts, an syne Norse, Norma on page 40

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ans o Scotland an states 'The Gaels of the Highlands and Irish we on page 110

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
entities. In contrast tae the Gaels, Lawland Scots dinna hae a pe on page 56

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
wi neebour fowks, sic as the Gaels o Dal Riata in modern-dey Ear
t is noo Scotland, sic as the Gaels o Dal Riata. Indeed, oniebodi
2 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
smothered in laughter’? Are Gaels romantic figures, stravaigin
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ly Gaelic-speikin fowks - or Gaels.
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South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
-upon-Tyne but with Scots and Gaels’ blood. Nae only that, ma ma(2020)