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The word 'gans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.35413
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
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 106.4 24 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 87.3 7 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 111.6 8 4
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 gans in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tae Noor, as the arkaeolojist gans at the wracks. "Pardon?" says on page 56
Astrid gans intae the lens o her caster a on page 72

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Each day jist gans sae fest on page 117
He gans doon i'stairs tae i'scullery on page 132
Oh-Fye-Vee Oh-Tuh-Rah life gans on on page 156
An it ayewiz gans doon really fine on page 171
He gans tae carnies on page 180
Also on pages 188, 198
24 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
seyins an ane o the best kent gans somethin like, on page 32

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
mind jist gans O'er aw soorts. Ah think mase on page 7
e mak shair that whit we hive gans roond, an' sometimes that's n on page 14
oat, an' they kin if onythin' gans wrang at least there'll be so on page 25
rmer an' fisher. It really aw gans back years tae whan the ferme on page 32

4 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
When she gans away at last ah twiddle the p on page 7

3 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
this to our current situation gans nearly wioot sayin. That Scot
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
The sun gans doun; ma hert-scaud sings ane on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
For whaur he gans, green things drap doun, an w on page 52

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
y the by), but wi him it jist gans stricht in wan lug and oot th on page 8

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
It didnae cross ma mind. Same gans fer touching black folks' hai(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
tin pen til paper, is the say gans; the fallaen skreivens ir ae
Howsumever, the storie gans thit Geordie, that nicht, put
The story gans, thit the fermer o the Wolf,
e Wolfcleuch Heid. The storie gans at ae haunt o the Covenanters
The storie gans at this wolf wis lurkin in o
7 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
whaur the road gans, on page 45

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
gans roon the sun, is it? on page 184

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
buik satisfies maist whaur it gans past the facts tae mak assess on page 84

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
gie him a guid shake. Bit he gans alang preoccupied wi his ain on page 87

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
n, Is as muckle as Christ, it gans wi'oot sayin. Tae be a wumman on page 40
till in yer graves. The fight gans oan, we're yet makin waves. on page 41

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
ieYoung Braw, thanks. Hope it gans braw. Cannae wait tae gan bac(2020)
ewartbremner @OorVyce Hope it gans weel Iona, daein a Vupper mas (2021) twitter link

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