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The word 'kenned'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kennedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.6347
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 30.7 12 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 25.4 19 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of kenned in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
When they kenned they had been bluffed on page 12
Suin they kenned the Soutar's admission. on page 27
He aye kenned his bus-pass wid come in hand on page 29

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ekwalt no ti greit, an Lukkie kenned at
ss, sauf an weill. The twenes kenned thai
the meinister kenned at itwes hissell an skailed w
3 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
These days it is a weel kenned fact that chocolate is poison
last goodbyes tae him but we kenned that he wid be weel looked ef
2 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
osest freen and confidante, I kenned this was going tae tak up a l
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
It is a weel kenned fact that mair lions are kilt
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
dnae hae onie brains, Dorothy kenned this jist by luikin at him (o
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Watching Johnny (as we kenned him) watching the wrestling w
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
'mang fowk wha never kenned font nor pew. on page 67
yet We hae kenned love is oor sweet refrain, on page 91
antly, says Susie, yon wumman kenned aa about yird, on page 100

4 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
endit nets an sails. Ah ne'er kenned ma faither, wha wis drounit a on page 11
he brae tae Bridie's neuk. Ah kenned she wuld gie me a bannock an on page 14

14 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
hPhs the day! The bairns fair kenned their Scots, thanks tae the e (2019) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tae cleek thegither twa weel kenned kintras. on page 49

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@The_JHS - Hewitt kenned, for tae get his heid shooere (2014) twitter link
d us mony poems an sangs weel-kenned on baith sides o the sheuch. (2015) twitter link