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The word 'gertie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gertieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.4413
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 121 37 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
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 gertie in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Gertie an Albert on page 27

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Eence undergroond Gertie o Görwill cam tae shaak my h
“A’m splendid Gertie, very blyde tae be bid here d
Gertie wis richt. Aabody wis dere. F
3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Jeez! Mebbe aul Gertie's mair psychic than Ah thocht on page 34
t Donald, his hairt sinkin as Gertie cam throwe the door, the bair on page 35
"Qoooo!" cried Gertie, clappin her hans. "Div ye th on page 36
"Gertie! Stop!" Ah'm nae interestit i on page 37
"Weel...if ye're sure." Gertie pyntit te a wee clump o tay l on page 38
Also on pages 39, 40, 41, 42
37 matches

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