A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 gist in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Peffers, Bob Upheeze, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
Gist post iz an e-scrieve an, gif
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ll be jiggin wi the big yins, gist ask the bookies on page 118

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
up a bit, but that'll be the gist. We're in a strang position,
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
subhuman ignoramuses was the gist o it that ye cuid jist aboot on page 53

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lly uninhabitable. He got the gist.
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
il; it's useless. The general gist ae the message wis Steven hud on page 9

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
waftit awa frae his lugs the gist o the meenister's earnest pra on page 35
imes she wrastled tae get the gist o whit it wis aa aboot. Young on page 74

2 matches

General Central

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Sae here's the hail gist o oor glib-gabbit sang: on page 39

1 matches

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tae unnerstaun an follae the gist o the poem mair eithly. As ye on page 46

1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
t wis a utter guddle. Nae the gist or the guidwillie but mair th
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
ve speired a bit, an goat the gist o whit happint that mornin’
1 matches

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