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The word 'cutty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cuttyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.93518
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.7 17 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 327 2 1
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 cutty 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
cool - even when set on the 'Cutty Stool'. on page 77

1 matches

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Slainte Bard, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, poetry
Cutty Sark
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rry the heid o the hoose wi a cutty pipe in his moo, the rikk ris
a daddylanglegs, fa smokit a cutty pipe an keepit a futterat fur
2 matches

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
were affa funny... weel deen cutty sark ('at's a gye guid erse y (2018) twitter link
were affa funny... weel deen cutty sark ('at's a gye guid erse y (2018) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
or a bedtime story or juist a cutty read for bairns o aw ages. Wh
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
as a muckle walin o his mair cutty warks baith in Scots an Engli
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
o the novel Buddha Da an the cutty story walin Hieroglyphics. Sh
1 matches

West Central

Cunningham, Liam Tam, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Bellshill, prose
nness shouted oot "Weel done, Cutty Sark." The music stoaped deid
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
eid, Megilloth. They are five cutty buiks frae the Bible, short e on page viii

1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
s is miserable, a tyauve, and cutty. Oo’r born, oo’r gien jui
on that, feres, oot-throu the cutty lave o your lifes! And abuin
2 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
omed tae sit oan Daddy Auld's cutty-stool! on page 15

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
buddie. Her shanks were that cutty she had tae hae a fit-stool t on page 5

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
, concept or subject a clear, cutty an objective gait. on page 9
a scientific term, used for a cutty wavelength, or that the term on page 12
wark in Scots, fae poyems tae cutty stories an mair. The Scots Le on page 54
ins is jist richt as thay are cutty an weel kent. on page 57
end Anne Donovan's gaithery o cutty stories, Hieroglyphics. The s on page 60

5 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
Or cutty sarks run in your mind, on page 79
or cutty sarks run in yir mind, on page 84

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
grup. Ella kickit oot wi her cutty, fat liggs bit Meg jist stack on page 67

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
dy a rare terr. Here, the'r a cutty accoont o an Aiberdeen cheil on page 131

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
a recess wa thit wad tak twa cutty beds. Ir aiblins ae guid size
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
n the PDF document ablow is a cutty accoont o Scots as a leid o p
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
He’d an auld cutty-clay in his teeth gruppit tic
1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Wi cutty stuil sae weel acquent.
An, govie dick, there’s cutty sark!
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Purdie, David C. Lallans 90 - Le Vin de Mon Pays, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Southern, poetry
Life is cutty, we're no here lang, on page 7

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ortrad Aye mair hallockit nor cutty!(2020)
ner @handsupfortrad Weel duin Cutty Bremner!(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
"Are yae styin on? 'a youg cutty aked, on page 15
Aye she wiz a guid lookin' cutty; on page 21

2 matches

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