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The word 'gull'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gullOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 gull in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
a Sand and climb the dunes. A gull owerhead in the blue is an em
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I found my first Little gull this evening. What a handsome(2013)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
twa species, lizard an common gull, hid bin taen frae the heid s
as aneth the ocean. Ilkie man-gull wis tae be caad a Skreichmakk
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
y o the raven, the call o the gull an the shriek o the wild anim on page 90

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
tummles a gull-threap intae a skreich. on page 16

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
o restive wave an wundflung gull. on page 77

1 matches

General Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
A young herring gull skreichs at me, on page 61

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The white horses. In a gull's caw, ah'd hear on page 201

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
oan, intae the slipstream - gull flight, salmon swim, mayfly d on page 22

1 matches

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