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kythes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20 27.8 9 0 0 0 17.7
Number of occurrences6454 6 0 0 0 4
Number of authors22 17 2 3

Occurrences of kythes in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
he starn. Syne, gin a wee lad kythes, that lauchs an has gowden ha on page 95

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Miss Honey said, "is wan that kythes extraordinar glegness at an e on page 174

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
t it rowes in aabody. Naethin kythes this mair vievely than the mo on page 56

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
im, brings oot the smeddum at kythes whan Scots cleiks wi Auld Ing on page 5

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
haw ya beauty! the photograph kythes on the screen ...' on page 144

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
n, the bricht meteor ray that kythes an minds us oan. Nou in a man on page 102

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ay arna pairt o the page that kythes richt awa whan the 'edit' cho on page 47

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
aa. Sangs Motherwell screivit kythes hoo nearhaun he haed muivit t on page 69

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
'Anecdotes of Scott', McCrone kythes as the unkent narrator wha ve on page 116

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
esome life o the Glesga slums kythes here in aa its fu frichtsomen on page 127
tive spreit at's in us aa, an kythes maist scowthie an saikless in on page 129

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ne, something raither speshul kythes, an this is ane o thae buiks. on page 132

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
en whaur the storie ackwallie kythes i the Bible! on page 135
cut, an wha, for guid meisur, kythes raiglar i the districk for ti on page 138
einisht aithers. Lord Derwent kythes as a ghaist til his leddie an on page 140
a tak in the haill buik as it kythes here. Better bi ferr is an on on page 142

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
isna aye-bydin, tho whiles it kythes ti be, an Frances Robson fein on page 7

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
nswer tae yon! A baskin shark kythes on blad 150, whan a fusherman on page 91

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
us is kent as Couslem whan it kythes in the wast efter sundoun.
neebor. The white plouks that kythes on an aff is antrin storms wi
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
llon and Tam. The hinnermaist kythes in the buik Pure Ghosters. (S
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
tentillie, ane bi ane, an it kythes, no unexpeckitlie, that Educa
the makar, his verra awn sel, kythes afore us in Wullie Hershaw’
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Atweill, ae kittil deil kythes ti be nane ither nor Rabbie B
rt, but his rael naitur shuin kythes. He vainishes oot-richt, an t
e-efter, a thrang o creditors kythes at his hous.
leid, an a harn-pan. Eimages kythes i the keekin-gless. It shaws
ut she is sweirt. But syne it kythes that the auld man is Sir Phil
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Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n ainimatit encyclopedia that kythes mony saicrets o wir neebour w
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Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
yles whaniver the needcessity kythes, an than forget aboot exposit
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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
office, what sinnle his name kythes in the jobs oo rin. But it wa
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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
auds a Folklife Festival that kythes the leid and cultur o ither k
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ikely finnd at the abuin saws kythes as, for example, ‘Thae (or
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ess o the leeterar Scots that kythes in Lallans is teepical o ordi
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
o puritanism alludit tae, aw kythes in an unkent poem cawed ‘Do
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ed oot.For aw that a question kythes in the 2006 Census Test, this
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ie linguistic seetiation that kythes in Scotland the day.
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘to år siden’ – which kythes faur closer tae the Scots nor
back as faur as the 1300s; it kythes in the 14th-century epic The
ae as early as the 1300s, and kythes in The Brus. Forby, it has co
, that ‘high heid yin(s)’ kythes as ane that non-Scots speiker
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
hegither by Marie, whase name kythes twice on its title page.
In poem 69, Marie kythes as pairt o a dream vision, wh
year the manuscript is datit) kythes alangside the epithet SCOTTIS
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
hegither by Marie, whase name kythes twice on the title page alang
st, the poem is anonymous and kythes uniquely in this ae faimily m
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Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
diverse amount o material it kythes. It’s designed fir aa ages,
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Nou, even my first paragraph kythes some kittle questions o what
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
oonce the “ch” soond that kythes in coontless Gaelic wirds, fa
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@billykayscot tweeted
e streitch o the auld Brig an kythes it blinterin white insteid o (2020) search twitter

Doric

Milligan, John Lallans 68 - Fu Brawlie Kythe Their Hair, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, poetry
nd but, man o man, fu brawlie kythes her hair on page 40

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
leid, the figure o MacDiarmid kythes whiles, as ye micht expeck. I
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Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
inpit o tha Scotch plentèrs kythes athort oor resydentèrs in si on page 7
(j) Fen patent airt 'at kythes sindèrie casts o Ulstèr-Sco on page 51

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Ultach Whan Aw Wir Hauns are Turnt tae Banes, (Reddit 2020) Ulster, poetry
An kythes the speldins in the spails;
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Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Columns 3 an 4 kythes she bes tha sister o Bodies 3
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