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The word 'cattie-faces'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cattie-facesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1101
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 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-faces in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
hat morneen. He didna see the cattie-faces flachteran past in broad dayl
reported that the nation’s cattie-faces hiv been actan gey droll the
n gey droll the day. Although cattie-faces usually hunt at night an are
aan tae be any more showers o cattie-faces the night, Jim?’
that, but it’s no only the cattie-faces that hiv been actan droll the
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