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The word 'kenable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kenableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9195
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 20 15 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 kenable in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
It's kenable that Ian Nimmo White haes tho on page 121

1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
l side o leid buildin is mair kenable - an lauchable- nor it wis an
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Ilka ane locked shut. Aa ower kenable, Allan thocht. Bit he cuidnae
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
o thairsels as ae fowk wi ae kenable culture, hoo lang they ruled
whaur we see amang the maist kenable o Pechtish symbols, sic as th
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Let’s stert wi a wheen kenable phonological (accent/soond) f
SSE has gey kenable vowel soonds. Fur exemple, th
ive ‘ch’ soond is anither kenable featur o SSE pronoonciation,
reposition ‘outwith’ is a kenable example o this ‘covert Scot
a kenable aversion tae ‘must’ and
6 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Despite their kenable kinship, Scots and English ar
Norse influence in Scots, wi kenable cognates in modern Danish (ba
The maist kenable owersettin o this Scots wird
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
s (gods). We also see the gey kenable Aulder Scots merker o ‘quh-
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
had sindert oot intae a wheen kenable brainches.
a tongues o Scotland. Forby a kenable hantle o shared wirds, they c
d Gaelic happen tae share the kenable fricative “ch” soond that
3 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
spak braid Scots wi ae kenable Cockney accent. Ay, owre the
1 matches

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