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The word 'keepan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
keepanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
ORK - Orkney 89.4 9 5
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
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 keepan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hope you're keepan weel. Ah'm weel, as you can s on page 10
Keepan thee safe fae hurt or slight. on page 27

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
t she disna look roond. She's keepan hur heed doon and gallopan on on page 87
Shae wis keepan the baet wae hur muckle toes on page 90

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
o what we say, keepan yir mooth on page 123

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
is lad wis anither reason fur keepan the Potters awey; they didna
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
The worst thing for me aboot keepan animals in winter is the sea
ht for a hunder metres or so, keepan up wae the tractor at twenty
2 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
keepan oot the cowld an the howlan g
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
lik a pomegranate, keepan her back to the on page 21

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Alice didna much lek keepan so close till her: first, bec on page 86
tter noo," she sade, by way o keepan up e conversation. on page 87

2 matches

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