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The word 'cerry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cerryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 cerry in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
enished the group decided tae cerry on. on page 34

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
least 9 miles! (5 miles if ye cerry it awa on thee feet) (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
ye'll hae tae cut oot i'cerry oot. on page 152
ye'll hae tae cut oot i'cerry oot. on page 169

2 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
Yised to tak the crew in we a cerry oot afore the games. Stunk o (2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ack oan and pick up Bruce. Ah cerry him as we follae quickly in p on page 163

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
thegether? A ken a barrie wee cerry-oot place.’
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
nny an mah maw baith have tae cerry it intae the livin room an th on page 173
i the sword, the fruit an oor cerry oot. on page 174

2 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Through life we cerry some mem'ries on page 22

1 matches

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