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The word 'kentna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kentnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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 kentna in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ntill e hans o men." Bit they kentna fit he meant; it hid been hod on page 96

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
htermuchty! (He greits) Moira kentna onie slichts, but A suspeckit on page 48

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
onkil, Grant Brecham, bot kentna gin he wes yit quik.
an freins, an kentna whitwey ti flit thair leiltie
weys, an kentna at slaw o tung wesna slaw o w
shae kentna whitten airt the win wes blaw
tho shae kentna the uise o gaun ti a saga, on
5 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
e lad (a bit scunnert) that I kentna hou tae draw. He answert: on page 12
I kentna hou it maittert that sheep at on page 21
e ower my haill planet, but I kentna hou tae tak pleisur in it. He on page 33

3 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
for dourness, gin ye kentna onie better, but I lairnt owe
kentna the wey o’t, she sayed, nor
2 matches

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