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The word 'flitted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flittedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43018
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flitted in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Oh, hiv ye flitted?"' on page 13
-goin beastie an aiven fin wi flitted oot o the fairm an inte the T on page 17
fashioned, though. The day wi flitted in they war baith aboot brakk on page 21

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
d a pucklie months ago an hid flitted ooto his hoose in Dessloch Pl
nie's sma possessions hid bin flitted tae Granny Bruce's hame the n
2 matches

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2021) Doric - Fraserburgh
Fan they flitted in te a croft te work en bide

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
We flitted a few months efter that, an A
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
t never saw a soul unless she flitted oot for a while remember the (2020)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
r. I wis brocht up at Drumin (flitted there fae Rhynie fan I wis 10(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
"Aye," I said. "We flitted that wummin, Lizzie, tae the on page 27

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e hud in the cottage since ah flitted here twa year syne.' on page 189
in a couple o weeks, she hud flitted intae The Rid Hoose, the exac on page 222

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
boarded up, bar the wan bein flitted intae, an the tap dancer, rig
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
gin amang them here, and they flitted aboot ower the muckle bleck c on page 143

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and flitted hoose and shore tae the balti on page 8

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Mibbe he'd flitted, gaun tae Lochgelly? on page 123

1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
chap. By times the cley davie flitted it till his hoose an thrashed
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ately intae Ahlice's, an they flitted off th'gither. on page 87

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
k A’m richt i sayin at thay flitted tae Mulsintoun ootbye herds h
flitted up til Craick Ferm i 1946, it
Graham, flitted up til the Kennels hoose, whi
an him, alang wi his faimlie, flitted i July 1946 tae the
4 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
n the Douglases had upped and flitted. And that, mooths flapped, wi on page 78

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Wha lang syne flitted owre on page 17

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
imsel. Soon efter, Montgomery flitted owre wi a clatter o kith an k
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ly had mairied Dr. Andrews an flitted tae tither side o the waal. A on page 24
ripped the wet algae. Hir een flitted bak tae the oul kelp hut wi i on page 50
Hughie had niver flitted intae the new parlour hoose. on page 59

3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ae hear Nelson McCausland has flitted. He micht o took himsel aff o (2014) twitter link
ed it intae his hoose whan he flitted owre tae Newtown at the Plant (2015) twitter link