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The word 'knick'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
knickOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 knick 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e hid tae a mansion - fill o knick-knacks, rich and fine?" on page 36

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ars; a shelf wi some o ma ain knick-knacks; a waardrobe an a waas on page 48

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
irch intae a kailwife's shop, knick his heels thegither, gie a sm
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Takkin out a fouth o auld knick-knackets, on page 87

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
e's mids, tae hear the widdie knick, on page 43

1 matches

General Central

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
st some virtual museum o auld knick-knackets anent Scots, it prov
1 matches

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