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The word 'carrick'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carrickOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 2
LAL - General Central
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of carrick in Corpus

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General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
able to complete passes. Play carrick then. #fuds(2013)

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
for they were heidin doun tae Carrick tae meet up wi some brithers on page 60

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
he Irvine, faur awa fae Kyle, Carrick and e'en Cunninghame in a fre on page 23

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Ayont tha shores o Carrick toon on page 10
Tae Carrick, iverie yeir. on page 20

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
raturs nor him danderin aboot Carrick o a Seturday nicht! (2016) twitter link
Ulster_Scots L.L.McCassey fae Carrick put thegither a proposal in t (2014) twitter link