A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kidney'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kidneyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 kidney in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ective donor o the life-giein kidney, wis his ain hauf-brither. Tr
el wi bluid group O cud tak a kidney frae an O-group donor – an
Bappy Anderson tae pairt wi a kidney. He wis a clivver chiel, auld
ackers, an ma faither needs a kidney transplant. In the ordinar wy
hancie he'd bin tae be gien a kidney sae faist efter his kidneys g
6 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
y, bit still liver & blooming kidney on it! Ma ain liver hid it ye(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
quid and the promise ae a gid kidney if she ever needs it. Jist ta on page 51

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Then there’s the fower wey kidney transplant last Yule wi ane o
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
that pouer, sae whaur’s that kidney?(2020)

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