| girn | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 18.7 | 62 | 31 |
| ORK - Orkney | 19.9 | 2 | 2 |
| SHD - Shetland | 17.4 | 3 | 2 |
| TON - Tonge | |||
| NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
| NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
| MNA - Mid Northern A | 62.1 | 19 | 4 |
| MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
| SNO - South Northern | |||
| ABN - Aberdeen | |||
| DOR - General Northern | 8.9 | 2 | 2 |
| NEC - North East Central | |||
| SEC - (South) East Central | 14.6 | 6 | 4 |
| WCE - West Central | 13.3 | 3 | 2 |
| DUN - Dundee | |||
| EDN - Edinburgh | 12.4 | 2 | 1 |
| GLA - Glasgow | |||
| AYR - Ayrshire | |||
| LAL - General Central | 18.4 | 14 | 9 |
| SEA - South East (Borders) | 37.4 | 3 | 2 |
| SWE - South West (Galloway) | 69.7 | 5 | 1 |
| DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
| WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | |||
| CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) | 31.4 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| SYN - Synthetic (no region) |
Hume, Caroline Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Moan, girn and pleep on page 126
1 matches
Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
fed/ill-trikkit! I only mind 'girn' bein used for dat specific c
Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
na keen on braes. Ye eesed te girn fin wi'd te ging uphill, so A on page 21
1 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ayed wad bide clear. Ye cudna girn if it derkened, ye jist got s
s Baxter, frae Lower Kilrogie girn tae her man. 'An button yer s
2 matches
Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
wiz. Noo it wiz a greet an a girn tae get yokit an michty but t
1 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
d inno her schulebag, she’d girn, “Oh I canna ging tae schul
osy wad reeshle her leaves an girn an wish
22. The Tale o Gracie Girn
Gracie Girn wis a wee quine wi the physog
wi teethache, Gracie Girn wis NIVER pleased. Fowk said
14 matches
@cligeey tweeted
@shooglie Nithing ti girn aboot(2020)
Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
fowk i the Soviet Union didna girn aboot haurd wurk lik this, as on page 85
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
The Denner Wifie's Girn (see page 8)
1 matches
Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
some modren Scots enthusiasts girn for the auld lang syne whan t
1 matches
Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
tae girn at progress, but there's ae t on page 131
But I'll no girn, Maister Burns, fir eftir a on page 145
2 matches
Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
x their natural span. I dinna girn mysel, sin I’m ane o the so
1 matches
Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
and smiled a terrible, toothy girn as he heezed the screichin Su on page 47
1 matches
Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Tae girn or flyte. on page 78
1 matches
Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
er got drookit, but he didnae girn aboot it because sodgers didn on page 75
2 matches
Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
doon thon road. He gied a wee girn ... It wad mak a guid story t on page 16
1 matches
Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
awa. She didna girn aboot it, her time wis by: sh
1 matches
Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Less Trauchle Nor A Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
buik o hivvenly beins, an her girn wad lichtit up a pit shaft. B
1 matches
Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
but the Inglis king took the girn that the Scots wis lichtin on
feed him for a week, but will girn aboot the want o meal. The sc
ns mair on drink thay shuidna girn aboot the want o meat. Fowk w
3 matches
Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Lat’s stairt we a wee girn o ma ain. Creative Scotland (
1 matches
@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
er @DaveVallis I'll hae a wee girn an say it is a muckle fash th(2020)
@fairpechtoot tweeted
Only bampots will girn about BBCs poetic delight |(2017)
Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The monkeys girn dulesum abuin.
1 matches
Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
e fash o the “Scots Creenge Girn”, hae yersel ae leuk it Dr.
1 matches
Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
the urge to girn and to haiver and blether
1 matches