A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'kyte'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kyteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
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 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 kyte in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
an aathin else his gutsy wee kyte wad haud. He bed in a beech w
hrummles o fancies. Mooch’s kyte an mou war stappit fit
nk he’d swalled a bomb. His kyte wis rummlin an
hittered a mince pie, bit his kyte wis unca queasy.
y. “Ma teeths” sair an ma kyte’s sair, an I think I’m
6 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
g the day, gie Lyn a relaxing kyte rub instead! #EuropeanElectio(2019)

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
wee pile o't under the hairy kyte o the cuddy, an lichtit it. I on page 51

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ant, "as I said afore, An yer kyte haes grown ower muckle fat; on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
feet were aye swallt, an his kyte as weel. For months he cuid h on page 75

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
ey're richt there in Poloko's kyte!"' on page 53

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
that maks ma kyte bowk. on page 36

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Yer weel swelled kyte a meenit's walk on page 13

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
Gart his wee roun kyte shak lik a trimmlin-tam.
1 matches

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