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The word 'kiz'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kizOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4182
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 24.4 10 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 49.6 8 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of kiz in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Peffers, Bob Whit Aboot Ma Ceevil Richts?, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, poetry
Kiz bi the schuil, whan Ah wiz we
Kiz Spakin Scots, bi law, wiz ban
2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
opeinioun, bot a think it wes kiz he wes a brounie.
collie’s cryed ‘Staun’ kiz he winna sit.
uteir wes a bittie disjasket, kiz he wissed ti hae happie witti
traist a man juist kiz he kent hiz mainners. Bot the
cam by, aither kiz he wissed ti puneish hiz sin
8 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
ornes abuin the capitall, sae kiz Ioniae wes owre the wattir fr on page 12
dae? Mebbies he is sayin at, kiz wichtkeind is eith yibbils ti on page 13

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
o the eyland, an thon anerlie kiz the'r traisur yit ti be uplif on page 3
dd at a quastioun, ir betymes kiz nane wes pitten, an thusgates on page 5

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
kkil mair wirk nir thai duin, kiz thai wes aye slopin aff ti pr on page 44

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
fur the Weimen's Ryal Navyne. Kiz hir faither wes a Reir Ammira on page 2

1 matches

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