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The word 'gurred'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gurredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 gurred in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
eggit pal atween them. Willie gurred again it the sicht o the depa on page 33

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
dug, puin his fuskers till he gurred.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
"Wheesht!" gurred his sister..
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
. “Get aff yon cheer”, he gurred. “It belangs tae Mistress M
“I dinna WINT tae peint gurred Gracie.” I wint tae play in
2 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
be noo, we'll get a fly cup,' gurred ma mither. 'Yer uncle Peter'l on page 51

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Her faither gurred, 'If ye cannae talk sense the on page 51

1 matches

Glasgow

McClure, Rob nothing but a set of eyes for stars - The Night, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
A tanker-mouthed collie gurred at its own flickering shadow on page 101

1 matches

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