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The word 'kaen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kaenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7122
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 69.7 12 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 kaen in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
"I duina kaen whit you'r spaekin aboot," Sh on page 35

1 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
I dunna kaen fu hit began raelly, bit der
ta come aboard. Weel we didna kaen whit state he wis in, so I cl
2 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
. Whin I gaeng tae a meetin I kaen Ah'm wrought herder dan aabod
n da list o competitors, an I kaen dem aa, kis we're been compee
w fur da idder competitors. I kaen fine weel der watchin me, siz
y I shoulda telt her, I dunna kaen. Sometin lik dat knocks da wi
sorry!' shö says. 'Du doesna kaen. I should nivver a said onyth
6 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
s a dialect tui, bit as we aa kaen, dat’s no whit we mean whin
aboot ‘dialect’. An as we kaen, i da public concept o da wir
n "dialect strategy." I dunna kaen if dis phrases cam fae Alex o
3 matches

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