A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.962
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 kers in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thir kers, asleep against kerbs o the h on page 14
Kirks, palaces, claes, kers - bae the time on page 27

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
fore he sterted makkan sports kers. When he sterted tae build sp
n he sterted tae build sports kers in the sixties, he establishe
t maks the famous reid sports kers, the wans that Ah’m stertan
3 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
… aye, that wid be it. The kers moved on, an a peedie blink l
1 matches

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