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The word 'kint'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kintOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.85815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 94.8 29 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 43.8 4 3
DOR - General Northern 102 23 8
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 kint 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

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ul thim richt up. Weel a jist kint et, eit wisna gan tae be oor on page 11
. Aye Jim weis a fly broot an kint feyn fit he weis deein. on page 12
lower eis usual, cus hee fyne kint eit, eit wid prubablee be hem on page 26
d be anither ordeal cus Alek, kint fyne eit a weis affruntet tae on page 30
eis, we weis baith exastet an kint eit we weis fechten a loosen on page 31
Also on pages 32, 41, 46, 49, 50, 51, 56, 64, 65
18 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
It wis Adam Kindness. Barbara kint be the wye his openin remarks on page 94

2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
er a few year ago. Nae bugger kint fit I wis bletherin aboot ??(2019)
@KirstySNP Kint I hid at version up in i loft(2019)
@deesidedon @DoricPhrases I kint fowk at workit at Tommy Tait'(2019)
& Italians. Loon fae Greenock kint some(2019)
ion Street. Peer loon. Naebdy kint fa it wis, he wis covered in (2019)
and 4 other occurrences.

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
doon in a cheer. My cheer. Ah kint better than tae say onythin, on page 35

2 matches

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Scotland wis aye kint far 'e quid get Fower seasons on page 29

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
It's fit we kint, we thocht it wis richt
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
her faither there, an if she kint fit she kint noo, she wid niv on page 18
mpleened aboot things, an she kint that her faither must hae bee on page 19

4 matches

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
hert an a peace ye've nivver kint. on page 26

1 matches

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Snog, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
lip balm at ye aye wore - aa kint it cos ye gied ma a lane o it on page 53

2 matches

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
oes. I wis sleekit bit aabody kint it wis me an eventually, I hi on page 58
Weel, we kint something wis gain tee give a on page 59
t wye did they pick on her? I kint they made her dae aa sorts o on page 60

4 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I SHOULD'VE KINT BUTTER on page 80
I' loons ye've kint fir mony years on page 127
An though he thocht I kint 'answer on page 190
I kint fan I scrieved 'is sang on page 204

8 matches

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
in o' knittin' needles a weel kint soon'
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@aduncan59 Kint you kint min(2020)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ish came afore bit nae muckle kint aboot et, ither an likely as (2020)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
keep beasts. Noo, the fermers kint fine that the fishermen cudna on page 32

1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t wen wi put oor mind tae it, kint wi son? We’re do’ers you
1 matches

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