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The word 'gud'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gudOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.94610
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 139.5 24 3
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 124.8 10 2
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gud in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
r plaags or polythene sheetin gud dirlin aboot da hill. on page 8
Maist nichts Grottie-Buckie gud fyshin i da voe whin naebody on page 11
Sae Tirli-Wirli gud gadderin hentilagets affa da on page 16

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
e, Grieve, ta see if hit's as gud a wirk o art. on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
bent settled apön me fae you gud: on page 23
Afore I gud, du closed on page 45
ithoot warnin: gud fae cat fyaarmin on page 46
A gale rase up, da lift gud black on page 59
Eence du gud oot on page 96

5 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
In gud a peerie bottle o scarlet NAI
FAMOUS DANDRUFF CURE. In hit gud.
it wis a white pooder. In dat gud as weel.
t stank o aald cheese. In hit gud.
An in, as weel, gud a muckle roond box o POODER.
7 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
alang da shoormal is he gud. He wid a traded
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Tanks tae you, an Gud be aboot you.
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
n da names o da lanes is shö gud. Burns Lane......Reform Lane.
airden, curled her up cosy an gud ta sleep.
din a double life. As da days gud by, shö got fatter an fatter
re tae da lass an waved as he gud. Dan he picked up da family f
4 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
@KirsteenMullay yeah, life's gud!! (2016) twitter link
rsteenMullay that's neigh sae gud (2017) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
mydday, an that grantit that gud but gruching ti gane, than ti on page 56

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
d doon at Fittie fit might be gud fer ye rather spend muckle pe(2016)
ist crap nowadays. Fars a yon gud films(2016)
n! Dinna ken fit she see's is gud on that programme as blooming(2018)
half cut maist o the wick as gud excuse tae dee so as her indo(2019)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
se o the audience - an quhit gud-naturt. He made her lauch. He
se o the audience - an quhit gud-naturt. He made her lauch. He
he leuch. “We appreciate a gud fib.”
Gud,” sayed Derriakin.
4 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
lie pies hen. Killie pies are gud but Scotch pies are the dugs (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
picter o lealtie an hou Gud fufills his hechts. A say thi
til ‘wut’s end corner’ (Gud’s
kin the rue an on cumin afore Gud, on cruikit
Gud, “Laird send anither Pentec
ary perfeck an pure the Son o Gud can bei, tae thaim whae hae g
9 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
derland and hev a skate aboot.gud fun #hohoho(2012)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ull national dress, it's affy gud ????, she then moved to Switz(2021)