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The word 'ceety'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ceetyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42812
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 49.6 8 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ceety in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
A ceety is nae place for hit. Da wird on page 31

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Whan was da ceety o a hunder to'ers on page 96
i da ceety o da brunt-oot library, on page 97

7 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
tion that Andy be taen to the ceety social wark depairtment. Ther on page 30

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n some animal protein for her ceety freins. She kept the pullet.
“Whit dae ye ken aboot the ceety o weemen?”
“The ceety o weemen?” he repeatit, no
et repeatit in Uighur, “the ceety o weemen.”
“The ceety o weemen is a contraceptive?
8 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
O aw the fowk that line the ceety streets, on page 15

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
gae tae a club in a faur awa ceety on page 6

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Through the ceety ma luve, on page 12

1 matches

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 82 - Belike a Mishanter, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
y afore, an veesitors til the ceety were aye brocht oot ti mairve on page 29

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
esga whan hale swatches o the ceety was rebuilt at lower housin d on page 9

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
lie, gin ye wad gie me Lunnon ceety on page 45

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
rvoirs, Bein situate near the ceety thae braes is ower leukit bi on page 65

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
by colleagues frae ootby the ceety and categoreesed as ‘kintra
d ‘urban Scots’ — Derry Ceety aye still haes the Scots nega
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
ed bin lockit up in the bonny ceety o Constantinople until the ye on page 19

1 matches

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