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The word 'kane'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kaneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.4309
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 79.7 18 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 kane in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
ur one of the funniest folk a kane. Yi niver fail tae mak ma lau
s tae speaking tae uthers. Yi kane ah ma secrets that a wid nive
er think in telling mam cus a kane yi can keep a secret cus a tr
k mistakes in life yi hiv tae kane yi jist hiv tae learn fae the
4 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
RT @JimTheRegular : Friday. Kane fit at means. @PeepPeeps_Bar (2023) twitter link
- they never gave it because Kane clearly pushes aff the player (2022) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
for hame imorn tho. Haha ana kane dude il hae to see fit like f(2013)
e he wina. He wiz in america. Kane fit at yanks are like. Joris (2013)
ust gettin worse. I dina even kane how we are ment to play. Nae (2014)
@Poppy_Totti kane. He wiz needin tae go like. I(2013)
igerWoods @McIlroyRory haha a kane. They still asking sergio abo(2013)
and 7 other occurrences.

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
up here, sometimes you dinna kane whether to laugh or greet, do (2023) twitter link
hat wifie ower there? I dinna kane her, do you? No I dinna kane (2023) twitter link
They dinna kane onything aboot fishing in Wes (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
keep goin" Suddenly… Harry Kane, the opposing team member cam
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a huv tae say ma pal harry kane is gettin the ruff treatment (2020) twitter link

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
a group o people thit I dinna kane. No, she’d yap awa tae them
started a wee joke cause you kane how abidy his at one thing th
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
it fer bi Glescae chanter Pat Kane), fowk were sleepin on the si on page 103
hers like Dougie MacLean, Pat Kane, Willie MclIlvanney, Neil Asc on page 107

2 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
I dinnna kane how lang we sat there. It mus
t ten minutes. I didna really kane fit tae dee. We didna speak.
2 matches

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