Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gather'

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Use in varieties of Scots

gather	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6	20	16
ORK - Orkney	49.7	5	3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.4	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	20.1	4	3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	3
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)	116.3	2	1
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 gather in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
So they gather stoor and cobwebs in a cupboa on page 44
We gather at the Parish Hall dressed in on page 70

2 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
le Banks thats far easier tae gather an put ap whin the sea washes
Weel they meed a start tae gather tang, an sune hid wis gaan ap
2 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
d take a good peedie while to gather that much smaller stuff here(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
her childhood; an how she wid gather aboot her ither peedy bairns, on page 121

1 matches

General Northern

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
tumbled aff the brig a’ the gather
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
She gather'd up the bag o socks on page 18

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
unday and up to 50 people can gather at a place of worship - onyb (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e greetit him pleasantly.“l gather you’ve been busy with this
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
doac and ah take a moment tae gather ma thoats. Tryin and failin t
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'll dae, ah say. 'Right boays gather roon, here's the plan...' on page 24

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ramshackle chairs as we could gather. There's a bar stool, a plast on page 32

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
I gather ma gear fae the hallway, aw t on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
I was sent tae gather firewood frae the big pile in on page 3

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
say.. A bit o' a lie doon tae gather yer thoughts?... ??... Person (2023) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
riends Nae time for stoor tae gather ???? (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Wi rhythm gather pace agin on page 29
Gather goold til hae some fun, on page 37

2 matches