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The word 'sitten'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sittenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 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
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 sitten in Corpus

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Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
ir bön in for wir denner, an sitten ower lang, blide ta be in oot
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
tae dee noo?" sumbudee roart, sitten en thi soaken weet syder curp on page 34
en coorse meel, "mayic." Fyle sitten weyten fur thi next coorse, b on page 40
Grun. Fin we got oot, we wis sitten bonnie fur thi ripen, couse t on page 46
Skim an Zool an hee's keeker, sitten roon thi paraffin heeter drye on page 52
t fin a weis hayen ma tae, an sitten eit thi coal fyre, appairentl on page 62

5 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
nt that the ither duncers hid sitten doon an somebody had turned a on page 94

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
Ailice hed sitten hersel doun on the bank o a l on page 100

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
said tae the drouth, wha wis sitten seelent afore a hantle bottle on page 44
e luved the desert. Ye can be sitten doun on a desert sand-rigg, s on page 77
w frae faur awa my wee prince sitten atap the dyke, swinglin his l on page 83

3 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Sitten, lang efter he wes deen, on page 50

1 matches

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