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Use in varieties of Scots

canty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 8.2 13.6 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences2816 9 0 1 0 2
Number of authors19 13 4 1 1

Occurrences of canty in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
he awready looked aboot mair canty, as if lowsed sudden frae som on page 140

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Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
e ye'll hae nae notion whit a canty thing a Labster-Quadrille is. on page 44

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
e ye,' she answered. 'But I'm canty and fine up here. Awa and bri on page 52

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
thon nicht's hell wis tint o canty sperk, on page 25

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Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
m, a bonny toun, freenly, sae canty an aa-place weel-biggit. on page 43

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Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
nside the waas leuk blythe an canty? Were they paintin the inside on page 8

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
wattersports. Thare's mony a canty coorse that can be follaed fa on page 65

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Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Kenspeckle Man, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
the canty snappin wis braw fun
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McPartlin, John Lallans 76 - The Gied Ower Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
as folly pleesurin a canty maister.
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Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e shawing a smile that was no canty.
canty.
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Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
es has wrocht a mair trig and canty landscape and even shiftit th
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e Chinese buyers wis juist as canty tae tak hallanshackers an sor
stoical lot, undantit, e’en canty. At nicht he heard thaim sing
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Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Is spaken o as douce and canty.
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@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
air enjeyin yersel wi aa thon canty things ye're up tae.(2018) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
The gamie's wife, a douce an canty wumman wi a couthy kwintra to on page 55

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
were, for the maist pairt, a canty crew at the shoppie, aboot ha on page 76
as nae nane pit oot; an wi as canty a hairt as he cud myn haein, on page 78

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
It was fortnat that his canty disposeetion was sae weil foo on page 30

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Philip, George Tales Fae The Doric Side - Winter, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
His croose an canty raik warms up the day. on page 80

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ang,' she says, an gings oot, canty as ye like. She didna gie me on page 77

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ng else, it was gweed tae hae canty comp’ny aifter spennin an o
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
oor o’t, It warbles juist as canty clear, whan the breath is ca (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
mer wör on, wi a cheerful an canty hert in her boasom, more so e
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Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha folk jaunt oot, wi canty hairts on page 30
Canty weans, wi plestic flags on page 31

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