A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gamie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gamieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2147
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 gamie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t it teen the vricht, smiddy, gamie and the aal Pipe Major tae ge
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fa’s fur a gamie o hopscotch? Fit’s The Doric(2018)

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ither an me on holiday till a gamie's cottage in Aiberdeenshire. on page 55
ge wi the grossit busses. The gamie an his faimily were lang awa; on page 56

3 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
wis the heid gamie on the Auchter Glen estate. A
heid gamie. He hid worked on the estate
a struck fin Jake wis a young gamie. He fell
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
dogs that pinted oot tae the gamie far aboot the rubbit
1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
a richt stiff kickin fae the gamie. Nae far fae greetin wi the p
ed tae jalouse gin it wes the gamie, or anither poacher fa had th
2 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@chaz50_duncan Nae gamie fir me e’day, waa’shin’ ma(2018)
pins min! Ye canna beat a wee gamie o' 'whackshite'! 'WHACK......(2016)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
. He then meets a merchant, a gamie, a watter-muller, a win-mulle
1 matches

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