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The word 'katy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
katyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6185
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 41.4 9 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 2
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 katy in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a get rid o da towt o' doin a Katy Perry/Roar/jungle spoof video(2014)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fussled twa tunes did Spikk, Katy Beardie and the Leddrach Pair
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
m gled it’s sae wee,” quo Katy. “I’d be rale feart if it
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
wis by chaunce ah met up with Katy, as ah wis oan my way tae the
An’ Katy’s big plan wis that we wid
huv tae tak wur shoes aff,’ Katy says.
Katy sees that ah’m losin the wi
didnae huv time tae hink cus Katy wis takin’ her shoes aff an
9 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Katy Clerk Maxwell on page 64

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
I gaed wi Katy Morrison
Whan we cam tae Katy’s granny’s
Me an Katy Morrison,
Black-heidit Katy Morrison
4 matches

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