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The word 'kitty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kittyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6128
ORK - Orkney
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 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 kitty in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
I'm aye here Marguerite The kitty's fair teem - we're as peer on page 15

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
m wis twa aal maids, Dolly an Kitty Jamieson, an on the grun flee on page 72

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
in an fungin siller intil the kitty or it gat up ower ten quid. A on page 58
hae taen the bate an tint the kitty for Sillerport.' on page 59
t aboot him sae muckle as the kitty!' on page 60

4 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
body pit thair siller intae a kitty, he haundit his ower an lat t
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in!’ she sais, grabbin the kitty aff the table an stormin away
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
rs in North Carolina flew the Kitty Hawk a hail fower mile afore
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
KittyB49568181 I'm sorted noo Kitty... I'm on the following, and (2023) twitter link

@iainnicol tweeted
@HollyLMckenna Wir bonnie kitty. https://t.co/MmA2LVu3Vy(2020)
Och, kitty. We dinna actually appreciate(2020)

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