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The word 'kynds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kyndsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.653
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 kynds in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ie (laudably) walcomes aa the kynds o Scots, whit daes that mean?
hid means at ert mad i aa the kynds o Scots'll be walcomed, wi cu
2 matches

(South) East Central

McLachlan, Jack Glessheids maun wale guid neebors tae thole the dreich Scottish climate, (University of Maine 2019) Central - Ceres, prose
ness o the different colourin kynds.
1 matches

General Central

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
n will leuk for quality in aa kynds o screivin offert, tho it wil on page 4

2 matches

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