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cairries Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.1 14.1 6 9.9 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences3628 4 1 0 2 1
Number of authors22 16 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of cairries in Corpus

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Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
The fifth yin cairries six fortepianas; on page 30

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Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
in..." he soumed, "Meanin she cairries her keys in her richt-haun po on page 138

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Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
aa that; in some respecks he cairries on the grotesque-macabre whau on page 5

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Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
hunder an fifty twae-thre. It cairries on throchoot the fifteenth ce on page 59

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ey aff she goes an the mannie cairries on at his wark. Eftir aboot f on page 78

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
le big main rubbish pipe that cairries aw the rubbish awa fae ilka p on page 129

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
that the subject o a sentence cairries oot the verb's action, follae on page 11

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
d they dinna Think, but if it cairries on snawin for anither sax wee on page 10
cely): I'm vexed for ye.' (He cairries on bummin awa.) on page 43

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
portant, because it's thon at cairries the semantic content o the le on page 9

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Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ack wi Brylcreem and drizzle, cairries a black bible, crookit in his on page 136

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Even the moon cairries the stamp on page 3

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Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
wha cairries awa the warld's sins. on page 97

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
nes on thair cuivers. Ilk box cairries thrie CDs, an haes a cuttie b on page 135
tells us hou Wattie at first cairries a hie heid, syne, whan daith on page 139
but i the hinneren, the Scots cairries the day, takkin monie preison on page 142

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
preferences o the makar, whae cairries the birden o pruif-readin. Th on page 56

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
This month's Wittins cairries an aixtrae blat tae haud a wa
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
ianco says, when a government cairries on this wey, it's cause they
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
r o Burns, an Colin Robertson cairries on the lexicographical focus
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
n this, but the yunger sister cairries the argiement. Houane’er, t
s ‘fag’ (a yung pupil wha cairries oot scodgie wark for aulder a
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
e o subjeck maitter. The buik cairries a gey yuissfu Scots vocabular
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Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
in thin is, a'body's ain leid cairries their ain musicality. It's th
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e sacrit cord, the nerve that cairries the erotic sperk fae the brai
e a lot thoo disna ken. Hsien cairries a burthen, Beatrice.”
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Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
vement. It’s a pattren that cairries oan the day wi memmership o t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
nglish speakin estaiblishment cairries its ain English coccoon aboot
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Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
an unnertowe cairries me intae the unkent on page 75

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Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
He cairries a nut that's the heicht o a c on page 24

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e thrissles? A gweed tree aye cairries gweed aipples bit a coorse tr on page 15

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Cairries in the coal and paet. on page 23

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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
humorous, an the best poetrie cairries the sentiment o Burns that th on page 34

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Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
juist cairries on leevin for aw.
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Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
that hears tha Wurd o God, an cairries on for a weethin, tae aa tha on page 83

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