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The word 'littlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
littlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7195
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 littlin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
The latest littlin wis a loon on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ells the kent yoam o the deid littlin, and whyles she'll lat the li
, and whyles she'll lat the littlin sook her, an bring it up as h
o the nicht takkin tent o the littlin's prayer:
ther', an syne gaun ontae the Littlin's Prayer, 'Noo I lay me doon
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in him, sae she turned tae a littlin fa wad listen – Joe Sangste
side o eternitie o bringin a littlin up free o gear. Some quines k
'Naethin bit the best fur oor littlin. Private skweel, designer cla
iver aince jaloused, that the littlin wis sired bi his brither-in-l
oot – he wis terrifeed this littlin he'd raised as his ain wad fa
7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
r’s Yuletide play aboot the littlin Jesus, an Jeemsie wisna
in Bethlehem tae tryst wi the littlin
2 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
like shelties noo,” quo the littlin. “An I dinna think I iver w
1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 83 - Chief wi Een Anither, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
mind ti tell ee iss, moose; a littlin, a wee loon cam hame ti ma ki on page 83

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
t teen wi Rob Roy fin I wis a littlin, haein stood, as I supposed i on page 51

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
As a littlin I dookit fur aipples
1 matches

General Central

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
hgelly, drawin the sicht, the littlin on page 56

1 matches

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