A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kiltie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kiltieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.484
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 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 85.3 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of kiltie in Corpus

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North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
had claws like the dirks in a kiltie's soack. When Hercules tellt on page 7

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Skye, Muck, Rhum, Eigg an – Kiltie. The Big Brither haes tae dec
y gets telt aboot the Laird o Kiltie that loves hissel an his muck
neuch Scots tae necessitat a 'Kiltie Glossary' at the hinneren o t
3 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A kiltie band noo passes by on page 32

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Maistly aboot daft aul kiltie-wearin eejits, hooaniver a wh (2015) twitter link
can you no jist wheek oot the kiltie bands #Glasgow2014 (2014) twitter link
the best tae oor #UlsterScots kiltie bands across the sheuch @glas (2015) twitter link