A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kirky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kirkyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7121
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 55.2 12 1
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 kirky in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
you're sooo never comin tae a Kirky disco wi us, she said, Yi'd g on page 22
oot whit she's wearin tae the Kirky disco this Friday. Charlene's on page 23
nip me themorra night at the Kirky disco, said Kelly Marie. Ah'l on page 24
ool had been talkin aboot the Kirky disco an how Chris Rice had g on page 27
e weekends an goes tae aw the Kirky discos; an even though ma an on page 46
Also on pages 72, 131, 143, 169
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