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The word 'killie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
killieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1269
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 180.8 13 2
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 killie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
eally only get better. ‘Well/Killie nae set the heather Utd hard (2020) twitter link

West Central

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Carol stays in Killie wae her new dug Brian ‘n a
1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
The Killie Fleshers - 1786
1 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
g haggis toastie in a cafe in Killie. (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
ook me tae Tynecastle tae see Killie win the league! Lost interest(2020)
lift ower the turnstile when Killie played Bangu fae Brazil lang (2020)
seiderin whit Walkers did tae Killie.(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
@jojodinks79 @star_welsh Nae Killie pies hen. Killie pies are gud (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
Sum wun for the mighty killie the day ?????? @Cscott5 @lyal(2020)
f he hez past it on ti any ma killie players al no be a happy man (2020)
st level then he shoud gan ti killie no hibs ??(2020)
rca bit e cani beat the mitey killie #oolwintheleaguesin #killieaw(2012)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
as Killie. Richt here tae were yince th on page 77

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
'm fae Muirkirk, brocht up in Killie, ma faither fae Cumnock, got (2021) twitter link
forianis ?????????????????? a Killie landmark in its centenary yea(2020)
g constituent, my auld ma, in Killie, great local repping to @NHSN(2020)
hire when Ah wis growin up in Killie though, as ye richtly say, no(2020)
ear25 @billykayscot Me an aw, Killie. Hated it, aw thon buses leai(2020)
and 6 other occurrences.

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