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The word 'kindo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kindoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus103212
ORK - Orkney 149 15 7
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 1
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 kindo 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.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
k up tae the hoose'll mak her kindo heavy!" on page 96

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
, poor owld Victor wis lukkan kindo ill. on page 8
He wis kindo green and whessan - and I ne on page 21
Me memory's kindo hazy as tae whit cam efter th on page 29
ae a suggestion and ah'm felt kindo lonely o late. on page 42
kk'd at boxer shorts in every kindo guise. on page 47
Also on pages 64, 69
8 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
An aal the cleverest kindo dumb on page 4

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
me mind innywaey. Johnny wis kindo teen aback bit said notheen d on page 99

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Professor McGonagall, soondan kindo exasperated and kindo admiran
exasperated and kindo admiran. ‘But yur different
2 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ies if ever thir wis, livin a kindo near-be-gaan wey o' life, wae
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
t wae the Gaelic that hid wis kindo like a buffer, and hindered i (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Da Problem o dese Paerts, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Shetland, prose
med in Shaetlan or ony iddir kindo Scots (letters an emails exce
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
It's yun kindo a night dat maks you want tae(2015)
I ay get kindo emotional on first hearin da (2016)
I'd kindo forgotten quite how light da (2014)
Dirs a kindo trowie wye aboot danight #She(2013)
I'm kindo blyde tae see da return o dar(2014)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
it but I jist caa’d awa an kindo ignored it. Ae nicht though c
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Thon sticker kindo pits me aff. A'v nearly misse(2020)

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
walk thegither. He breathed a kindo quick breath while he wis pul
lling doon in a tiny spray, a kindo ash landing in the dark on th
ontae the bed wi his fist, I kindo bounce back up, and I laugh,
it’s inevitable that these kindo arguments will happen. These
arguments will happen. These kindo scuffles.
9 matches

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