A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kite'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kiteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71912
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 kite in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
2222 @marcesherwood Juv Black Kite I think (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ot fearin my dog turns into a kite. https://t.co/drOw2Cbg5q(2019)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s by aa mindin, as heich as a kite at the thocht o flittin the n
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
gmaleerie. Whigmaleerie wis a kite, a muckle fite paper kite wi
, a muckle fite paper kite wi orange ribbons an
the kite, fleein abeen him, deistin hi
h a testy lauch . He pued the kite doon frae the
Whigmaleerie the kite, wi his tail tied tae a tree,
5 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
s Ah, for me a gled is a reid kite. Afttimes wunnered aboot e na (2020) twitter link

North East Central

Valentine, Lynn Thi Loast Bairn, (Wigtown 2015) Central - Arbroath, poetry
A Reid Kite blawn aff coorse intae derkne
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
sclumb afore ye strap oan the kite. I bought Jock a pie fur his on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ddin, and he wis as high as a kite thon nicht. He sat doon in hi on page 44

1 matches

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
cots fur the bird o prey, the kite. And the Greens are thirled t
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
'll a' mak' ye feel high as a kite fur a while, but it's a' jist on page

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
A clockwark dall, a kite reined frae its rise, on page 13

2 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
The Kite Runner (kite - the Scots ward ma father y(2018)

@rattlecans tweeted
but no those who pay below X" kite a few times o'er past 10 or 1 (2022) twitter link

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