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The word 'carried'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carriedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83529
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 175.8 5 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 524.1 4 3
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of carried in Corpus

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Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
carried for wance bi ithers. on page 10

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Aal this I've carried for fifty years on page 131

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
tongue, carried on. on page 24

1 matches

Nicholson, James Lallans 58 - Do whit du’s telt, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
e been a lot worse if you had carried on like that." on page 17

1 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
hay like a kishie but wi nets carried ower his back, held tagidder
1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
aand' (burning peat) was then carried around the outhouses, ridding(2019)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
day efter, maybe," e Footman carried on in e same tone, exactly as on page 55
n flew close by id, an nearly carried id off. on page 57
event ids undoan idsell), she carried id oot intill e open air. "If on page 59
le more an more faintly came, carried on e breeze at followed them, on page 103
ess wis e Duchess's cook. She carried e pepperbox in her han, an Al on page 110

5 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Carried out tasks for H.M. Government
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
A carried on fishing an hour went by no
ed ma dide tae come over so a carried on fighting it this one is bi
2 matches

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
em a in a bit o newspaper and carried them ben tae the kitchen. I l
1 matches

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
tae be canny and nae get too carried awa cos a hid tae mind that a
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
only February min! Donna get carried awa cus it wis a bra day the (2019)

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
blem if ye dinnae, like", she carried on, takkin peety on ma scunne
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ap and then he wid hae tae be carried back tae the hoose.
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@19Mcculley Answered it ! I carried it oot ??(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Navdeep, came tae see me. She carried me oot ma bedroom windae an w on page 41

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
a efternuin, sic a motion wis carried bi vyces alane - a fittin om
1 matches

Dundee

Cara, Dillon, Ami and Travis Bogle Adventure, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
tthew said ‘Aye’ and they carried on their way tae the But n Be
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
was in Older Scots frequently carried out independently of English.
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
essment o’ ma character wis carried unanimously!
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Sometimes we carried a blame that wisna oor ain on page 139

1 matches

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
We each took a box an carried it intae room two, flat three
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the Highlands and Irish west carried over the rest of Scotland oth on page 110

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
y ????.... I wid have tae get carried oot o' there if I did that Ji (2023) twitter link
ogan7074 It does Tam.. Ye get carried away wi yersel'... (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
73ish) had been repealed. IT carried a max sentence of death ?? Th (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
gauns oan, ee ken," th Hatter carried oan, "lik this: - on page 71

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the saft chink o cheyns carried awa on the snell westlan wun on page 25

1 matches

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
rs, made up tae the nines. Ye carried yersel wae a confidence that on page 76

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
o this crack aboot no getting carried awa! #UlsterScots #GAWA (2014) twitter link