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The word 'catty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cattyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9306
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 75.2 23 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of catty in Corpus

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Shetland

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

Mid Northern A

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

Aberdeen

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

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay the 9th, went oot in toon. Catty. The on page 4
fit. I'm no sure if she wis a Catty gurl back in her day or no. " on page 5

3 matches

General Central

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

East Antrim (Larne)

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

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