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The word 'gazed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gazedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 gazed in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
lanned whar tae geen nixt. He gazed intae da unlamentin blue sea.
He gazed intae da frigid, frosty sea,
2 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Gazed at his ain reflection on page 11

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
she teuk aff her brogues, and gazed in mazerment whan she stuck h on page 1

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ast central Scotland, an then gazed up ti the grey lift: whit cui on page 77

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
pike. Hauding his haun up, he gazed at the ragged hole punched th
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
An gazed, on page 221

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An gazed, on page 147

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Still an on, as he gazed at the flooers, a sense o gra
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
oun on the stuil by the fire, gazed lang an hard intae the lowin on page 44
s een were fou o tears as she gazed doun on this wee pink braith on page 71
dit her heid in a dwam as she gazed ower at the new Airnwarks at on page 79

3 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e haunded Tam the whisky. Tam gazed at the liquid, held it up tae on page 47

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
cen, but it lessened, and he gazed at her hike a calf. on page 3

2 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Duvet curled I gazed at crumbled thee.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
And on it's rock, it gazed frae high on page 25

1 matches

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