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The word 'kilmarnock'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kilmarnockOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5187
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 65.5 5 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 2
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 kilmarnock in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
id the congregation...French, Kilmarnock, or the Auld Hunner war the f
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Or Kilmarnock, Airdie or Partick Thistle on page 93

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
frae the Oort Clood or mebbe Kilmarnock. on page 118

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
at his gaff, a flat just aff Kilmarnock Road in Shawlands. He’s a m
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
at Kirkcudbright, Hamilton an Kilmarnock as a warnin tae ithers. For d on page 27
ng the roads frae Strathaven, Kilmarnock an Derval, an ower the muirs on page 34
as the distant smeekin lums o Kilmarnock. A saft wind blawin in frae t on page 35
tae Derval an on tae Sorn or Kilmarnock. Split the men intae groups, on page 36
a pair o stout broun shune. A Kilmarnock bunnet set at a jaunty angle on page 68

5 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
at Kilmarnock station on page 76

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
he street ran richt throu tae Kilmarnock Cross.
ther. He’s been comin aboot Kilmarnock for a year or mair, an his ho
e Wilson on the prentin o the Kilmarnock Edition o Burns’s Poems . .
celebration wi his cronies at Kilmarnock Burns Club. At this time o ye
e maist prosperous flesher in Kilmarnock. Wee Margaret wad aye hae abo
6 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
he is whaur he comes fae, Kilmarnock an Loudoun. on page 77

1 matches

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