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The word 'crawled'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crawledOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82620
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 22.8 9 6
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of crawled in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Vexed tae see a lot o dem ir crawled oot o the widd wark fae this (2021)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d got doon off e mushroom, an crawled awy intill e gress, merely re on page 48

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
For nae much wis he seein He crawled intae his jeans an sark Cursi on page 15

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ed her up there. Baith o them crawled inno a sack apiece, an coorie
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
rowed the net fae him and Bob crawled ower tae his bosie and put hi
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
len branches fae it. Then she crawled roon the tree three times wid
1 matches

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
y tellt ma faar tae look so I crawled up tae faar the coils o bunti
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Whit maitters? - He's crawled through the last fissure, Pas on page 16

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
boay who appears tae huv jist crawled oaff the pages ae The Great G on page 48
ey wae me durin the night and crawled up nixt tae her. But when she on page 56

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
SIE: Moira, are ye thinkin it crawled oot its cage aa by itsel an w on page 59
"I've got ye a present!"? She crawled under the seat an grabbed her on page 84

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
ey wae me durin the night and crawled up nixt tae her. But when she
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an I've heard, syne, that he crawled oot
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e recently. Apparently Ginger crawled hame yin nicht efter haen an
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
tae form oan mah coupon as ah crawled under his kip. Mah nails scre
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Wha crawled and sweated, on page 129

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
peered through the doors and crawled past them. On more than yin o
1 matches

Glasgow

McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - The Tale ae a Worm, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
An if it crawled oot frae whaur it aye hid, on page 114

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Cos ye look like ye’ve just crawled oot the Clyde.’ Scanlon sai
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
pen for wee Christian, as she crawled amang the rashes on the flair on page 73

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d aw been bidin in. And Sunny crawled aroond wi a thochtie look on on page 17
ae mak him feel better. Sunny crawled ower tae his glesses, picked on page 55

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
got doon off th mushroom, an crawled awa intae th gress, jist sayi on page 49

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
wus fu o pride, til tha louse crawled ower hir bonnet, Bot we'r aa on page 11

1 matches

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