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The word 'kirst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kirstOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 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 kirst in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
und, by throwin the Laird’s kirst oot the windae.
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
moved dead fast an spelt oot KIRST BEWARE but by that time ah kn on page 107

1 matches

General Central

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Kirst, Ye look like Ye've had yerse (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
erent answer than u wanted. “Kirst where do they come from?” An(2019)
ike floors oot safeway garage kirst. #sillyjamie(2019)
ditto heni got a thing. Hopin kirst is gane ti do it but a very m(2012)