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The word 'kie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.2202
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 38.4 15 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 kie in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
an luxure, clam in an pit the kie i the lok o’z
speired, “Ar ye no gaun ti kie inti the ordinateir?”
ys the Crowner, “he is yeir kie ti Tornes.”
im aff the schep an ontil the kie, whaur a beddal
kie ti aw hiz graith. Gang doun t
15 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
d a cantie keingryke. Bot the kie-stane wes poukit out bi smaik on page 25

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
vver, chappin at thon tirrand kie-buirds an glowerin at the mir on page 2

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
m wurk: plooin, seiin til the kie an wunnin hey an sic lik. Aul
1 matches

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