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The word 'cattie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cattieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1274
ORK - Orkney 238.5 24 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 cattie in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
wae a cattie-face, a snek an a hungry gruf on page I
A cattie-face saa the moose, an thowt, on page 5
An his favourite food is cattie-face in batter!" on page 6
"cattie-face in batter? That fills me on page 7
"Hid's Cattie-Face," said the moose. "Hi, C on page 18

9 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Nane o thaim noticed a muckle cattie-face flachteran past the wind
hat morneen. He didna see the cattie-faces flachteran past in broa
ed an gecked, open-moothed as cattie-face eftir cattie-face flacht
-face eftir cattie-face flachtered owerheid. Mos
o them had nivver even seen a cattie-face, even at night time. Mr
15 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Their only companion a cattie ca'ed Dot on page 15

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
far a blind wifie bedd wi her cattie and her hen. on page 20

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Ane o oor cattie's is hirplin wi a sair fit. V(2020)