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The word 'govan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
govanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
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
WCE - West Central 35.5 8 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 govan in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ay's nineteen an he comes fae Govan, an accordin tae Charlene her on page 75
this guy wan time ootside the Govan underground. It was before he on page 156
S, shoutet Laura Kyle, GO THE GOVAN BOYS GET YIR SCOTTISH MUSIC I on page 158
roved them wrong an we've put Govan on the map. It wis a really h on page 169

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Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
s gonnae take her tae Asda in Govan in the morning, “cos a stud
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
smell the cunts. We’re doon Govan Road waiy, near tae the auld
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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
hs o Barony, Glesca, Gorbals, Govan an ithers fae the wastland an on page 40

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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the men at Govan on page 21

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