A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

The word 'gars'

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of gars in Corpus

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
lections Orcadian offers. Hid gars ye write in Orcadian aboot th
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Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
pplicaetions i Scots, the gee gars makkan a whole nyow register
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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
clock chimes three. The soun gars ma hairt haimmer against ma r on page 45

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
er Fadder in hivven, cause he gars his sin on page 12
baith e gweed an e Coorse, an gars e rain drap on baith e jeest on page 13

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ld that jeels the hairt, that gars fowk turn the heatin up in th
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Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
rums an e swing o e kilts att gars ma hert loup an fair kittles
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Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ee fin ee come ower e flrth. Gars me bowk ilka time. Qan an oan
de aff intil e lang girss. It gars me grue jist mindin on’t.
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
d fingers that are feerie, it gars a body want tae sing, or lowp (2020) twitter link

South Northern

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
richt through my beens an gars my fingers swaal on page 10
Fit if on siccan nicht as gars on page 32

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
teenth o February. An if that gars ye winner, here's a bigger fe on page 8

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Christie, Hilary Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, poetry
An it gars me cry oot on page 74

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North East Central

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
maks a Prrrrrrrpt soond that gars him back awa fae her. She cat on page 125

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Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
An gars me drap ma threid an body bai on page 59

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
rd in aw thae places whaur it gars rid faces the day an did in t
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Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
maks a Prrrrrrrpt soond that gars him back awà fae her. She ca
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
euk as Scots as possible that gars sic a scant o Scots words?
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
It fills yer hert, an gars ye sing."
it gars the daisies lift their heids
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The likes o this gars mair quaistens anent the wirt
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West Central

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ot hie unemployment, an aften gars govrenments rack up lairge de
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Dundee

Edinburgh

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
wi or editin Scots Wikipedia, gars us think that the nummers o S on page 6
ect + verb + object mak. This gars the reader tak tent maist dir on page 11
wark an-aw that kittles an gars ye think. on page 57

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
cine,' said Wee Grumphie. 'It gars him grue.' on page 32

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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the wind gars them reeshle on page 18

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whan hairst gars shake a wabbit neive on page 2
muckle bell, sounds discord, gars deleer on page 28
Gars fowk as jetsam clag the cauld on page 30
Begowkin daizzlement gars habble on page 40
An gars me drap ma threid an body bai on page 44
Also on pages 80
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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
chan o Glendale in a wey that gars us see it in oor mind's ee, t on page 62

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
The Fower Maries: That gars us spick mair bold an clear. on page 24

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
e be tae the cruel cause that gars my tears doon faa, on page 69

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Fyall, Aitken Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Gars thaim coorie richt doon, ahen on page 80

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
eness o't: ilkane o the plays gars ye lauch in the reading o't, on page 109

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
An her at gaw an wormit gars me pree: on page 43

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Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
gars neer a murmell o domestic str on page 52

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Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
that, faur frae bein kittlin, gars ye aither grue or guffaw: She on page 127

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
, the skeel o the playwrichts gars the Glesga vyces dirl in your on page 127

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ntle that's driven wi heat an gars volcanoes an plates flist an
nian Theory of the Earth that gars a body's backbane chitter the
l an on, the oreeginal eemage gars us chitter an shaws hoo muckl
by Jubiter the pull o gravity gars it heat, ice on its surface b
een it comin. The thocht o it gars a body grue.
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Douglas, Ashley Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations, (Wiley Online Library 2022) Central, prose
altruism amang young-anes and gars it less likely amang aulder-a
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Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ps intae atoms an the smatter gars neutrons flee aff.
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Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
phenomenon cried lag is whit gars ither chairacters swaver by a
ody can nocht but wunner whit gars fowk want tae share a seicont
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
the screivar’s buttons and gars him or her jundie the leid al
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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
Dauntons my dowie hert that gars it crack.
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
id fremmit til Inglis readers gars them grue at the thocht o sic
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Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
that gars them tak tent o rules set bi
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Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
It gars the tear rin in ma ee,
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@jack_capener tweeted
@JMcL14 Noo thon's a poyem gars iz greet awmaist ilka time.(2019)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
he nor sairious leeteratur an gars ye elid forbye. I sall send y(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
The wine gars me thole the huff! Hope @Hist(2020)
d wersht lemony feinish. Fair gars ye get ready for a lang strav(2020)

South East (Borders)

South West (Galloway)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Ultach Whan Aw Wir Hauns are Turnt tae Banes, (Reddit 2020) Ulster, poetry
An gars ye leuk
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
e o gettin bluid fae stane It gars me grue. on page 31

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Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
r-Scots is "wrang" English an gars the reader see it as anither
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East Antrim (Larne)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
gettin aboot or slicht, that gars a bodie uise a wheelchyre
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