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The word 'knittin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
knittinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.63421
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 35.6 3 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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) 88.3 1 1
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 knittin in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
said, coontin da loops on her knittin wire. “Du’d aesy look a h
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
in wi da corona, can I finish knittin dis ganzie afore da pandemic (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it's bingo, bools, cairds or knittin. Jessica's a topper bit Ah'm on page 46

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
yvin a maazie" in ither words knittin a ganzie. (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
s bringin in stuff she'd been knittin; socks, woollen caips, balacl on page 38

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
n aff it tae keek doon at her knittin every noo and then.
lack and white screen and her knittin, wi a wee nap every noo and t
2 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
cht cosy it wis, Dolly wi her knittin and the cheetie sittin on the on page 124

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
The clickin o' knittin' needles a weel kint soon'
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
ndae. This fair ripped Hera's knittin and she hatit Hercules even m on page 2

1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
ma feet up an' git on wi' ma knittin'. Ah feel fair contented-like on page 3
a'. Aye, there's aye a lot o' knittin' Ah kin be gittin' on wi', th on page 5
rts. Ah think masell it's the knittin' that dis it sometimes, Ah've on page 7
he Guid Book did a bit o' the knittin', did His Mither ever wark wi on page 12
Ah cannae even git on wi' ma knittin', weel they ca' that wark as on page 27

8 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
erday - have a guid new year knittin eer wooly jumpers in eer wee (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Kelly Marie rips ma knittin. She always has done an probl on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
rayer beads clickin away like knittin needles. Every time the van t
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
His Jenny dain her knittin’;
1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
wi the knittin or the thread on page 40
knittin oxtered on page 48

2 matches

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
hon wee holes makkit wi a wee knittin pin efter the cake wis beuk. on page 118

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
ds an giein it laldie wi bent knittin pins.
1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
oan ma bahookie pure rips ma knittin! (2022) twitter link
r_welsh Meetings pure rips ma knittin gorgeous! Oan a mental diluti (2022) twitter link
nae wrong hen wid pure rip ma knittin! Mornin howzitgoan? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
’d jeest, sat at the telly, knittin socks, an watchin the progres
e, she said she fair liked ma knittin. I telt her it wis coorse com
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Her knittin sits upon the shelf, on page 24

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Minin hir knittin. on page 16

1 matches

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