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The word 'corrie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
corrieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.45913
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 66.8 50 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 corrie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
geets aifter Sunti Claus has corrie fister a big pile i' presents(2014)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n, strath, knock, haugh, bin, corrie, sgurr, kip, tap, top, howe, (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
goat a hing fur a lassie oan Corrie. It's a long story. So, he'll on page 161

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Wham cliff nor corrie cannae please
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Browne, then a 1/3rd o’ The Corrie Folk Trio an’ mair importan
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
right haun side. Ah wiz aye a corrie-fistit-gun, slung low, auld l
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
is bool oot tae the left - a corrie fister, is Tam - an it comes
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
great scrievers includin Joe Corrie, Robert McLellan, Robert Kemp on page 37
tradition pairtly derived fae Corrie's ensaumple in his mair serio on page 39

6 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
nd wi awthing bein hidit in a corrie. on page 65

2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
@BeautyCreep Corrie-haundit is anither wey o sayi(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
use tae brek lockdoon rules. #Corrie(2020)
ackmailed, that's fer shair. #Corrie(2020)
#Corrie isnae makkin a lot o sense at(2020)
s a seedy reputation. Prick. #Corrie(2020)
e o reason. Aye, richt(!) ?? #Corrie(2020)
and 36 other occurrences.

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@GreigMidd Efter #corrie thou(2017)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
gh if Jacques Brel haed bin a Corrie, richt eneuch. These are mair on page 67

1 matches

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