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The word 'kinks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kinksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 kinks in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
ers got peeved at me being in kinks laffin.... (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
rd brag. Forbye, he kep me in kinks, aa day, ilka day, wi aa his on page 85

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Lik the sudden kinks o the lichtnin an the serpens on page 41

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
fawin doun wi the kinks. The dirdum fleggit awaw the
1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
e droonin bairns an the deein kinks o the pitten awa, but maist o
1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
etion that aye haes aabody in kinks o lauchter. There is concert
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
doubled up in kinks on page 52

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Nae kinks or differs on page 17

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
izard's sclate-pencil, an the kinks o the happt-up geenypigs, fil on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ttish Place-Names News was in kinks aboot a 'fantastical' advert on page 56

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
gaein inti kinks as gin thay war hearin thaim
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
@scotlit Explains the kinks ma husband went intae when py(2017)

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