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The word 'keeng'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
keengOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus25834
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 372 64 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
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 keeng in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
da coarners. Nixt cam da ten Keeng's men; dey hed diamonds clest on page 80
r gairdeners, or soldiers, or Keeng's men, or tree o her ain bair on page 81
Da Keeng laid his haand apon her airm, on page 82
a ts du spackin tae?" said da Keeng, comin up ta Alice, an lookin on page 86
roond him: da executioner, da Keeng an da Wheen wis aa traepin fo on page 87
Also on pages 88, 93, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123
64 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
esse, an Jesse wis e fadder o Keeng Daavit. on page 7
dea at e time fan Herod wis e keeng. There cam, aboot att time, t on page 8
elaus, Herod's sin, wis noo e keeng o Judea, an he wis some feert on page 9
cause att's e toon o e muckle keeng, nor will ye sweir bi yer ain on page 12
In e time o Herod, e keeng o Judea, there wis a priest c on page 79
Also on pages 106, 112, 118, 119
16 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
d caad aff for strivin wi the keeng,
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
The device staunds keeng tae the dooks on page 17
thinkin it maks tham keeng tae ither fowk? on page 45

2 matches

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