A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kinno'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kinnoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5253
ORK - Orkney 109.3 11 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 42.5 13 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 kinno in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
, at waants tae waatch her an kinno on page 4
myndeen o some histry intae a kinno culture, parteeclar. on page 32
u blenks. A karl sportan some kinno helmet (but maed o some kinno on page 45
sheu wis cursed wi the wrang kinno faimly on the wrang kinno yir on page 90
s raedy tae cup intae her awn kinno ree, an naeraboot waantan tae on page 99
Also on pages 118, 122, 144
10 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
lleen. So you canna / kunna / kinno spaell hid wrong. on page 8

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fin it's preened tae a plain kinno cloot.
na entertain ony o yon Heilan kinno notions, they'd the whiff o t
Matty at his heels, an uneasy kinno a peace atween them. The cloc
e hid begun tae sattle inno a kinno uneasy rhythm. At sax o clock
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
"Fit kinno a place is Adam's Peak?" the
r his epilepsy – an an orra-kinno pucklie fur bein Sector 6's c
an data-bank centre forbye. A kinno technological an business war
irkin, ambitious an leal; bit kinno blate wi weemin.
e tae let Neil Duguid ken fit kinno a mither hid drappit him? A b
9 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
een, a richt coorse, perverse kinno a cuddy wi a mynd o its ain. on page 51

1 matches

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