Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

catty	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	10.3	3.6	36.2	0	5.8	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	33	7	24	0	1	0	1
Number of authors	6	2	2		1		1

Occurrences of catty 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.

Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
day the 9%, went oot in toon. Catty. The on page 1

6 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
was for cat, near abody had a catty. There was black cats an whit on page 120

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
otted plunts an a place for e catty tae dee her business in, an t on page 35

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
kin at her. “Oh me peer wee catty!” She put her haan in tae t
she’d ging oot and shout “Catty! Come on dearie!” and it wi
sh. She decided tae caa it ‘Catty’ because it seemed tae answ
nswer tae that. Eventually ‘Catty’ started tae come intae the
air lookin. “Oh ma peer wee Catty,” she’d mutter as she ten
23 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
hink dirs 2 Shetland names - catty clooer and craws taes. Da bee(2014) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
But we need to find a way to catty on." He hesitated an stepped on page 52

1 matches