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Use in varieties of Scots

sittan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.7 0 17.6 218.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences330 11 22 0 0 0
Number of authors10 1 9

Occurrences of sittan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ginnan till get awful tired o sittan eeside her sister on e bank, on page 7
beeg blue caterpillar, at wis sittan on e top, wi ids arms fowlded on page 40
tman wis gone, an e ither wis sittan on e groond near e door, star on page 54
d till e ither: e Duchess wis sittan on a three-leiged stool in e on page 55
d by e sicht o e Cheshire-Cat sittan on a bough o a tree a few yar on page 60
Also on pages 62, 64, 71, 90, 104, 107
11 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
A'm sittan wae me seween on me lap on page 41

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sittan there on the wa o the middeen on page 16
pan ben the hoose tae see her sittan there. on page 33
Ah'm sittan on a tractor, erse exposed ta on page 47
Grandad and the bairns cheust sittan gaspan fur the grub. on page 70
Ah'm sittan there among them wishan I wis on page 81
Also on pages 84
6 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ally fund it inside the hoose sittan on granny's chair wupped up i on page 129

3 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Breck - buckets at the door, sittan in the sunwarm on page 13
Thoor sittan on an ashet white on page 116

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Hids mibee sittan on page 88

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
mped doon ontae a stuil an is sittan wae her head in her hands, gr on page 38

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ed in the morneen. It wis noo sittan on his gairdeen waal. He wis
no sign o sleepiness. It was sittan still as a statue, its eyes f
’d be stiff if you’d been sittan on a haird dyke aal day.’ S
back tae the Dursley’s dark sittan-room window. ‘I heard it. F
Professor McGonagall faintly, sittan back doon on the dyke. ‘Rea
5 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
Sittan in the waarmth o central-haet
1 matches

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Wae poosack sittan here.
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
! I fairly see the allure for sittan tinkan. Thoor no o the Isle i(2020) search twitter

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