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The word 'caithness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
caithnessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92314
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 5
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of caithness 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

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
and the Caithness men scattered, on page 5

1 matches

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
In a Caithness cloot, he made his wae hame. on page 6

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And the farawey hills o Caithness, misty-blue against the sky. on page 48

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
€“ fae Gallowaa tae Moray tae Caithness – in pieces whar Scots cont
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
oots. Am hard hid wis becis o Caithness bein giy light wae the Gaelic (2021) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
int tae spaek Norn (Orkney an Caithness). on page 7
wi whit's fun ithin Orkney an Caithness. In dat wye hit looks laek di on page 13

2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
ANSON wis born and grew up in Caithness but syne then he hus leeved a on page 109

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
r ain fertile crescent atween Caithness, throu Aiberdeen an doun tae
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
oor pairlament wi the stane o Caithness an the steel o the Clyde. Whe
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
s diverse. Fae Gallowa’ tae Caithness, fae the Kingdom o’ Fife ta
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o anti-nuclear protesters fae Caithness decided tae mak their ain pro on page 102

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
in Scots ([…] leaving aside Caithness and the Northern Isles) are a
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
cts o Alba, an laungrabbin in Caithness, Southerlaun, Ross an Moray. on page 14

9 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ny Stewart. A poem written in Caithness Scots: https://t.co/sVs54ReY0 (2018) twitter link

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