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The word 'kerried'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kerriedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22312
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 93 16 6
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
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 kerried in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
phone, puzzled. The deid man kerried oan on page 30

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e the burn, a book, stranded, kerried - safe on page 13

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
e folk wur in the hairst, and kerried ower tae Fetlar?(2020)

Shetland

Mainland, Jim Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
an kerried on fine - it wisna ta spite on page 28

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ouldna tak oot da sndd), shö kerried it furt. "If I dunna tak dis on page 62
s wis da Duchess's cook. Shö kerried da pepper pot in her haand, a on page 115

2 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
kindness. I lifted dem up an kerried dem. I took dem in my airms a on page 69
pat da p6r man on a board an kerried him ta Jesus. on page 109

2 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Tammie's faider kerried da post, an mony a coorse day on page 1
ae a hom danadays, an he just kerried on wi his croft. He wis most on page 2
hin you oppen dem up. Dan dey kerried it up in maeshies on dir back on page 8
aar in twaa oors as dey wid a kerried in a week. Widn dey be blyde on page 10
ah haes ta be educated," shü kerried on tauntin me, "Bit it wis - on page 22
Also on pages 39, 44, 51
8 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Mary kerried him. on page 83

2 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
rtree hansels. Meenie proodly kerried a hap dat she’d spent monts
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
put oan tae the principle an kerried oer tae next week. Ye should
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Make sure ye don’t get too kerried away. Ye’ve still tae meet
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Hume, David The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
they’d kerried in their pookets and threw do
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
on. He liftit tha scuttel an kerried it oot tae tha scullery, pit on page 17

1 matches

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