A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'muirkirk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
muirkirkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.2474
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 395 37 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 111.6 8 1
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 muirkirk in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
d. Fower mile north east frae Muirkirk, it wis a lanely place for a on page 25
an rain across Airs Moss tae Muirkirk; an led thaim tae the beild o on page 26
at dark mornin when they left Muirkirk, he wis certain when Dalyell on page 27
uirs frae Fenwick, Eaglesham, Muirkirk an Mauchlin. At the hinner-en on page 34
An sae it wis at Muirkirk in the spring o 1680, sax yea on page 39
Also on pages 40, 41, 42, 44, 48, 54, 56, 58, 60, 61, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 81
37 matches

General Central

Thom, Williamina Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, weans
r became a weel-kent howff in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, wi a wheen gentlem
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
60 or so men set oot towards Muirkirk. Naethin went wrang an they m

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
sFed @KillieStandard Ah'm fae Muirkirk, brocht up in Killie, ma fait (2021) twitter link
uage pals. Mum Mima's 90, fae Muirkirk and minds this bit o an auld (2020)
Muirkirk's finest, 85 now, @scotslangu(2020)
f Tibby Pagan at her howff in Muirkirk by Burns. Yowes. Most likely (2020)
oot the Ayrshire mairs up by Muirkirk. A wheen o year fae Ah lugged(2020)
and 2 other occurrences.