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The word 'keir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
keirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 keir in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
r supporter and see ansar and keir meeting up - every confidenc (2021) twitter link

West Central

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
ninghame Graham and his freen Keir Hardie were foondin faithers
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
o Marjorie Thomson an Andrew Keir, no tae mention McMillan hiss on page 39

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Baxter, Andrew Duncan, Andrew Keir, Russell Hunter and Roddy McM
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Sir Keir Startup oan the tele tellin u(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
oon streets o Dumfries an fae Keir tae Collin on page 77

1 matches

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