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The word 'cryit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cryitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.8367
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 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 96.1 9 2
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 60.6 5 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cryit in Corpus

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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
lenge (ilka time the boat wis cryit Shamrock, in deference til hi on page 125

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
lenge (ilka time the boat wis cryit Shamrock, in deference til hi
1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
anaw, an Sachs becam what is cryit a 'meistersinger', an a leadi on page 45

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ss, it gies us what haes been cryit a ‘baseline’ for future w
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
This new paperback, cryit 'Anecdotes of Scott', gies us on page 116

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Lairistan. Aw at kent him ir cryit til the dale, but Jocky o Mil on page 140

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
cran crope, the huddit crauis cryit varrok, varrok, quhen the sua on page 23

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
"Ti the Graund Duke," thay aa cryit, as the cat had tellt thaim. on page 42

8 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
hauns,' seys Harald. Sae they cryit him Shaggie Heid. on page 14

13 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - On War, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
in the name o Greed, fausslie cryit ‘Duty’.
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Cryit a thousan tymes, Ah never gle
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
richt, twae o the lassies wur cryit, Carolyne an Georgina Welsh.
wis cryit, ee stood literally tae atten
2 matches

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