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The word 'kelvin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kelvinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 kelvin in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Oor best player Kelvin Black took the day aft his wo
imond player took a throw in, Kelvin grabbed the ba an the
pleased an gied Kelvin a reed card. He wis sent aff
lay. It's often spoken aboot, Kelvin is in the Pitsliga sportin
4 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
me, the Hunter Brithers, Lord Kelvin, and mair on page 40

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
an Guglielmo Marconi, an Lord Kelvin forby, tried pratticks wi wir
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
I mean, third place i Glesca Kelvin! Ahint the Greens! There noo
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Wi seventeen forts an aw, The Kelvin bridged, signal towers, Wuid on page 5

1 matches

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