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The word 'kintrae'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kintraeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.74813
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 35.5 14 3
WCE - West Central 46 10 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 65.5 5 1
LAL - General Central 22.6 17 8
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 kintrae in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e refleckit in the rest o the kintrae that wis ironically cried the
Wallace an Bruce tae redd the kintrae o the English forces o occupa
kintrae thrang wi carefree kilties, t
e o Scotland set furth by the kintrae’s best sellin newspaper,
when compared tae anither wee kintrae on the
6 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
oll on Scots speakers in this kintrae is muckle. Awthin they say fe
hire dialect - not in ma ain kintrae, an no in England either. Ah
2 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
obliged as a newcomer tae the kintrae tae point oot hou wrang this
ae this wunnerfu, progressive kintrae seems unbelievable tae me nou
2 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
d aboot the bleak futur o her kintrae in the Daily Record. She beli
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
mmers o Scots speakers in the kintrae.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
g that Oor Wullie did for his kintrae, for his nation an for his cu
uid for the population o this kintrae, is the Smokin, Health an Soc
2 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
there were clubs aa owre the kintrae, a fyowe festivals, and a whe on page 56

3 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
hat Kathleen Jamie, yin o the kintrae's finest scrievers in the ton
ser o Scots growin up in this kintrae the day has got twa choices -
2 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
, there; sign-ups for the new kintrae went throu the roof. Croatia,
isnae sae much an independent kintrae as an expression o the kintra
as an expression o the kintrae we've awready got? That we're
ob. Sae why bother? Gin every kintrae is jist a dream, daes it mait
4 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
irn that has grown up in this kintrae these past hunner years, hear
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
eir frae yin o thaim whit the kintrae's name is, ye ken. Please Mis on page 9

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
'Peden the Prophet' tae the kintrae folk o the south-west - pers on page 29
e south-west o Scotland, puir kintrae folk in their hovels had tae on page 62
tit it tae breathe God's guid kintrae air, an no aye be hoastin wi on page 71
up till late Mairch. In ilka kintrae, thousans o puir folk perishe on page 81

4 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
kintrae cried Sugarollie Ben, whaur a on page 6

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
, she wis sune browden on the kintrae an its fowk, mairrit John Lor on page 62

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
owk in sae monie pairts o the kintrae. Nou ma warld pictur, that so on page 6
ts in places like ma ain cauf kintrae amang younger fowk, is that t on page 7
Awa on the ither side o the kintrae I cam across the poetry o Cha on page 9

4 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
din: 'Andro Millar sometym of Kintrae qvha decessit tertio Martij a on page 91

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Kintrae livin
me chaumer, evacuatit tae the kintrae lik sae mony bairns acause o
2 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
yer hame, yer faimlie, an yer kintrae. It haes soul an hert lyke na(2018)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
r folk doon south tae run oor kintrae! (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
disgrace tae yer faimily, yer kintrae an yersels. Hell mend ye.(2020)
reasons I’m veisitin anither kintrae but will aye follae the guide(2020)
is gey close tae Sunset Song kintrae an Lewis Grassic Gibbon haes (2020)
shuir I’m richt an the kinna kintrae ye descrieve is anely possibl(2020)
@joao_kay this efternuin. The kintrae hoatchin wi wild flouers, an (2020)

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
whan yin o us is in the kintrae on page 18

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
Scots wirds yaised athort the kintrae.(2020)

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