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The word 'kervit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kervitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.792
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 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.4 7 1
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 kervit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Thair nems, wi quotes, is kervit boss, on page 141

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Sanct Hub’s, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
he wirds, JOHN KNOX HIS CHAIR kervit ontil’t.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
dit wi fine cheinie lames, an kervit jaud, an ivors, an skimmerin on page 2
grene impyre jaud, wi a byous kervit lidd. He aff tuik the lidd an on page 3

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
s. Thai wes Pecht maissons an kervit the stanes at merkit the impo on page 42
e Pechts. The Hailie Brithers kervit thair ruids flett on the grun on page 43
es the erest Celtik corrs wes kervit on the Eyl o Colum. Eftir tho on page 44
Pecht-lik nir thur at Barbar kervit on Colum's Eyl bot it wes cla on page 45

5 matches

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