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The word 'kelpie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kelpieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9226
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 2
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 kelpie in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
juggle (similar to Scotland's kelpie) would wait in streams and lo(2019)
Casino spots his peerie Kelpie Collie pal comin doon da hill(2019)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in the loch aside the fir.. a kelpie, he’d caad it. Efter yon,
he puil aside their haime The Kelpie’s Puil. A fisherman aften
d like a steen, deep inno the Kelpie’s Puil, leavin
mornin. The kelpie maun hae likit the fishermanâ
an on doon tae the side o the Kelpie’s Puil.
8 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Tales Fae The Doric Side - Kelpie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Kelpie on page 11

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The son o Pan and a watter kelpie. on page 98

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
han A thocht A seen the saund kelpie sweemin roond the saund-pit p on page 59
elt fowk noo aboot oor 'saund-kelpie' bogeyman thay cuidnae juist on page 63

9 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
acters sic as the traditional Kelpie as weel as the new creations
1 matches

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