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The word 'kam'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5244
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 224.6 18 1
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 kam in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
hariver sheu’s baidan. Sheu kam tae Orkney a cockney, queekle
pleks maks mee imachin at fok kam haer fae a weis awei een then
2 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
til da sun kam on page 16
wir hæmtoons kam læk ys on page 17

2 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
simmirdim kam doon aboot da Niep on page 27

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e an itchy scalp an... I sall kam it oot later tae hae a proper(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
, bade wi his wife Kate,(whae kam oot o Es’dalemuir) i Hoscot
he job up. Ay, the Post, whae kam up frae Hawick, fisht fur tro
fock kam frae fer afield tae dance thr
Commission kam on the scene i the late 1940â
wi thum at day, kis the mist kam doon, an tho the Troopers cui
18 matches

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