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The word 'kale'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kaleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72920
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of kale in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Salt pork and kale, sweeman in butter - I think on page 31

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
utties an a bridge made oot o kale on page 91

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
While Whalsa folk grew kale ta dee, du skyimpit on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
reestit mutton for Newer Day; kale soup an bannocks. on page 70

1 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
Selkie Gyo; gied dem bere an kale
1 matches

Walterson, Vaila Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
bles. dey hed tatties, neeps, kale, rhuburb an some ingans too.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
their way through my Shetland kale. I've given them to the birds(2020)

Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
I bring hame? Tallies, neeps, kale. Fit thanks div I get? Far di
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
nywye Jocky teen a barrafae o kale reets ower the wye o the midd
upit the barra an skailed the kale reets aboot the grun. Mair th
2 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
eftPeggers Fit a treat crispy Kale(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
braw savwver! Is that a pot o kale?" on page 96

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
cabbage whites hae spilet ma kale,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
An a boul o kale tae fill yir tum.
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
or twa pots o kale, an bonnie lassies on page 4
Chaos At Thi Kale Pot on page 40
roond thi kale pot. on page 41
or yir grannie's kale, on page 120

5 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That's in the mornin cauld as kale on page 120

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
pling and breath like rotting kale. But Sister Agnes has skin li on page 3

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
ie stippit beeryin yon muckle kale-heid wi the geenipig? It's de on page 79

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
s mak my brose, they mak your kale;
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Mrs. Ballantyne, fermers frae Kale Waitter, tuik the tenancy on.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
unce neeps an batter cabbage, kale, carrots, ingins, beets, on page 77

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
eed skirlin weans on wattered kale; A wacful dish, I fyke for me on page 59

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
oan tha lan, growein prootas, kale an banes. They haed eggs an m
1 matches

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