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The word 'gesture'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gestureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72918
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 20.6 8 4
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 1
GLA - Glasgow 35.2 7 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 gesture in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
at. We'll do it as a goodwill gesture. Suggest you take it - it's on page 75

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
How much of a gesture is Shetlandic, to give the va
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mile and a herty handshake. A gesture that ah reluctantly accept. on page 49
unts hissy fit" ah say, as ah gesture tae Aldo, "ah'm guessin the q on page 74

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ther is she raed oot, “As a gesture of loyalty and affection and
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ave’s by way o a comforting gesture. “Nivir mind, son, stick wi
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ds in one photo defo - great gesture josh - b oan tae you (2020) twitter link
op drawer from david - great gesture! (2021) twitter link
ith @RangersFC @itvnews great gesture fae awe oor brothers - aye i (2021) twitter link
eam u support this is a great gesture fae the bin lads who have wor (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
r an make a limp wristet haun gesture. on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
on the erran wi yin eloquent gesture.
din. He raised his erm in the gesture she had made an shuk his heid
o fareweill, he made her swan gesture.
the corridor. It wis juist a gesture, she kent. “Lat me in,” h
ed Bill, “he made a graphic gesture implying that I’d be joinin
5 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
onie, but it wis just 4 token gesture, They knew they hud been done on page 20

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah gesture tae the mourners smokin thur on page 19

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
eturns tae eez dome in a mock gesture 'ae us. They greet Aonghas, t on page 3

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
whit ye lookin at me fur? - gesture. ‘Who rattled your cage any
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
t ah wave oer dismissively an gesture tae ma watch tellin them ah
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
issed him wi a raised up luif gesture. The dominie grabbed the belt on page 43

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
then wi a gesture on page 10

1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 76 - I am the Lass, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
expression, gesture, gait an mime,
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ter. It wis tae be a symbolic gesture agin bein let doon owre the f
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
shairly be a guid Hallowe'en gesture if Boris Johnson wis tae dee (2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Douglas, onybdy ye ken? wae a gesture oot the windae tae break the on page 81

1 matches

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