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The word 'guesses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guessesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 guesses in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
ntasy) allous ye tae mak wild guesses aboot whit language might deu
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
coming tae yer jigger'? Guid guesses fae the class. #scottishtrave (2020) twitter link

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Fit aafa aisy guesses ye speir!" gurl't Humphy Dump on page 78

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'I'll gie ye three guesses, Rabbit. Howkin holes in the on page 90

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
model for spellin, sae makkin guesses by analogy wi ither soons
in, hence the hypothesis o ‘guesses by analogy’ that produces d
2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Whuppity Stoorie, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
erous tae ye and gie ye three guesses."
1 matches

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