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The word 'cattie-face'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cattie-faceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2141
ORK - Orkney 139.1 14 1
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 cattie-face in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
wae a cattie-face, a snek an a hungry gruffalo. on page I
A cattie-face saa the moose, an thowt, You' on page 5
An his favourite food is cattie-face in batter!" on page 6
"cattie-face in batter? That fills me wae on page 7
"Hid's Cattie-Face," said the moose. "Hi, Cattie on page 18

9 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Nane o thaim noticed a muckle cattie-face flachteran past the window.
ed an gecked, open-moothed as cattie-face eftir cattie-face flachtered
eftir cattie-face flachtered owerheid. Most o t
o them had nivver even seen a cattie-face, even at night time. Mr Dursl
ver, haed a perfectly normal, cattie-face free morneen. He skraiked at
5 matches

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