A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kelman'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kelmanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of kelman in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ishisms kythin in the works o Kelman, McIlvanney, Rankin, Jeff Tor
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Good Times - James Kelman
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
piss oot her fur it. Alasdair Kelman. Here. Laura Kyle. Laura Kyle on page 46

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
ievers - Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead
1 matches

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
@fbpe_jojo77 Jist Go-ogled Mr Kelman. Jings, thats a fair wheen o (2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
h hae mair writin in dialect: Kelman, Welsh, Robertson. (2016) twitter link