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The word 'keith'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
keithOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32115
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 6
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 62.9 6 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of keith in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Then, Keith wis a gentleman fairmer, wi a on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
's bed At his craftie ower by Keith She fun a bowlie o brazils By on page 15

1 matches

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
I was born and brocht up in Keith but bide in Alford noo. I’m
1 matches

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
ire and Moray. Bit, ae day in Keith, James reeved a loaf o breid,
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fin ah see dour Kiosk Keith on Ah’m a Celebrity Get Me O(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Teuchter Map. Div ye nip inti Keith and get a Dream Ring fae @Har(2019)
l tellin me aboot a bakery in Keith that hid twa pales in i shopp(2019)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Fascinating. Ony Keith fowk oot there wi Gaelic spik (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
(Keith) on page 13
resembled anither richt guid Keith Show, The fowk they turned up on page 29

6 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nicht. It's truly affa & that Keith Lemmon is nae funny. It's as (2018)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
o prey. A cheil fae the RSPB, Keith Morton, wis quotit sayin the
1 matches

General Central

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
His reader wad’a been Agnes Keith coontess o Moray (dee’d 158
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
wirthy o the Sahara (opposite Keith Place) wi foliage growin on i(2020)

@LowEndJardo tweeted
as a pilot for this hosted by keith chegwin but the catch was eve (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
and rapped an Ian concoction. Keith gied us a South African tale
1 matches

General Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
* Keith Gamble, yin tim' Chairsman o' on page 8

1 matches

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