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The word 'pittan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pittanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1137
ORK - Orkney 129.2 13 7
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
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 pittan 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

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
pittan oan the plaid, he'd teen fae on page 6

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
PITTAN OOT THE KYE on page 86
again the time his come, for pittan oot the Kye. on page 87

4 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
spends the whole day clickan, pittan things up on a screen on page 44

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
o pittan up wirds, o bidan, belongan, on page 8
"No. I'm not a psychologist," pittan Higgie's biss up. "Hid wisno on page 56
itrens sheu canno see. Sheu's pittan her haands tae the black waas on page 134

3 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
sometheen else. It’s aboot pittan up a new lambeen shed. Read o
ambeen shed. Read on, though! Pittan up a new shed is a big event.
2 matches

Ljosland, Ragnhild New, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Pittan new soonds in me mooth
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@helenmoncrieff Weel deun pittan yin intae wurds(2020)

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