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The word 'gett'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gettOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3115
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 170.6 6 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gett in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
The creakan o the gett. on page 42

1 matches

General Northern

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
r though he tried he couldnae gett the engine stopped
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
in tae me, ye ill-trickit wee gett.”
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
On ilka crabbit gett on page 31
swore hed skelp tha slabberin gett, on page 34

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
k (1912): the carnaptious aul gett was talk o the clachan, dande (2014) twitter link
You're a carnaptious gett @AuldMoaningGit2 - whan I get (2014) twitter link
eil whatever thon carnaptious gett Samuel Thomson says! Aa the b (2014) twitter link
s a geg, an a carnaptious big gett forby: he's quare an fand o a (2014) twitter link
eLoudmouth is yin crabbed aul gett! A skelp on the bake would da (2014) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.