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The word 'gorilla'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gorillaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gorilla in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nin: nae teeth; breath like a gorilla's oxter an mair lines oan yer on page 12

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
aig Street Baths leukin lik a gorilla that haed swallaed a live cob on page 60

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ng mynd. “Ungava”, “The Gorilla Hunters”, an “Coral Islan
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
l heavy lassie wi hauns lik a gorilla an ah wis scared she might ba on page 72
cause she said she wis lik a gorilla; ah think she wis ly though, on page 94
cawd Gabriella the baby sock gorilla: it's meant tae be fur weans on page 154
nearly ripped right aff by a gorilla he'd been tormentin. Me an Cl on page 169

4 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
in sae muckle as a silverback gorilla, a_ thick-craigit, thick-heid
1 matches

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