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The word 'kyn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kynOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9236
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 62.9 6 2
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 kyn 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.

Mid Northern A

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
e as presenter on radio o oor kyn o music - Dumfries, Musselbu
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
says Mundie in a deleeberate kyn o wye, 'gin es is Ferguson Ne on page 80

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
wi a 'farton', a lang, sweet kyn o loaf that ye can dip intae on page 4

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
an nae kyre, naething o that kyn, jist es young loun (Weel, A' on page 24

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
at we war baith scrievers o a kyn, sae it wasna lang ere we war
t him that she saa me as some kyn o –Dinna laach! – some ky
o –Dinna laach! – some kyn o releegious “guru”.
3 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
iss een avaa, it vreits aakin kyn o things at I'm nae ettlin ta on page 20
he spak again, in a wee blate-kyn vyce, aamaist jist a fusper, on page 25
id the Rose. "She's een o the kyn at hes nine jags, ye ken." on page 28
"Fitten kyn o insec?" speirt Ailice, a bi on page 40
kytht tae be pang-fou o aakin kyn o fremmit things - but the m on page 70
Also on pages 71, 78, 80, 82, 89
10 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
I wush ye'd be mair kyn! - Wha'll lairn me? You? on page 45

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
atcht the weys o fowk o alkin kyn
1 matches

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