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The word 'kelly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kellyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus441419
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 606.9 132 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 kelly in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
I’d agree with Kelly that it’s spelt marless. htt(2019)

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
Kelly o' Cults, femily owned

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Kelly o' Cults, femily owned
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@advancedref Fish Ladders at Kelly sawmill firewid boxes a wid t(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
straight, he phoned Lorraine Kelly an she wis sae sympathic tae on page 79

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
at wee listen 2 night as ryan kelly was on bdfm - good show all (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an Charlene an Charlene's pal Kelly Marie. Harpreet's parents had on page 23
ch wi Harpreet an Charlene an Kelly Marie again. Harpreet wis dae on page 24
shattered, Charlene said tae Kelly Marie, How did you no say yi on page 25
ward silence after that. Then Kelly Marie, who had jist finished on page 26
Kelly Marie wis staunin right next on page 27
Also on pages 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 41, 44, 45, 48, 67, 68, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 93, 96, 169
113 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
He’s gaun oot wi ma cousin, Kelly Campbell, an noo she’s star
i aw ma pals. Ah cannae staun Kelly cause she’s wan ae the bigg
Kelly Campbell’s big brother’s
yir ma an da don’t talk tae Kelly’s ma an da disnae mean you
tae oor door lookin fur me an Kelly Campbell wis wan ae them, the
19 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
e board tae spell oot Jeannie Kelly and Lizzie Black. We knew we' on page 53

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
urprise me to hear that James Kelly is proposing Jocky Wilson to (2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ilda Murrel, Willie and David Kelly are looooong gone. We've alre (2022) twitter link

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