A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

carried Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 7.7 18.1 19.9 23.2 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences3515 12 2 4 1 1
Number of authors29 14 7 2 4 1 1

Occurrences of carried in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the saft chink o cheyns carried awa on the snell westlan wun on page 25

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Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
rs, made up tae the nines. Ye carried yersel wae a confidence that on page 76

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Navdeep, came tae see me. She carried me oot ma bedroom windae an w on page 41

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Sometimes we carried a blame that wisna oor ain on page 139

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the Highlands and Irish west carried over the rest of Scotland oth on page 110

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Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
We each took a box an carried it intae room two, flat three
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Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
blem if ye dinnae, like", she carried on, takkin peety on ma scunne
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Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
a efternuin, sic a motion wis carried bi vyces alane - a fittin om
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
was in Older Scots frequently carried out independently of English.
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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ap and then he wid hae tae be carried back tae the hoose.
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
essment o’ ma character wis carried unanimously!
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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@19Mcculley Answered it ! I carried it oot ??(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
y ????.... I wid have tae get carried oot o' there if I did that Ji (2023) twitter link
ogan7074 It does Tam.. Ye get carried away wi yersel'... (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
73ish) had been repealed. IT carried a max sentence of death ?? Th (2022) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
day efter, maybe," e Footman carried on in e same tone, exactly as on page 55
n flew close by id, an nearly carried id off. on page 57
event ids undoan idsell), she carried id oot intill e open air. "If on page 59
le more an more faintly came, carried on e breeze at followed them, on page 103
ess wis e Duchess's cook. She carried e pepperbox in her han, an Al on page 110

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Cara, Dillon, Ami and Travis Bogle Adventure, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
tthew said ‘Aye’ and they carried on their way tae the But n Be
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Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
A carried on fishing an hour went by no
ed ma dide tae come over so a carried on fighting it this one is bi
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Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
em a in a bit o newspaper and carried them ben tae the kitchen. I l
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Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
tae be canny and nae get too carried awa cos a hid tae mind that a
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Carried out tasks for H.M. Government
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@fittiecrooners tweeted
only February min! Donna get carried awa cus it wis a bra day the (2019) search twitter

Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
carried for wance bi ithers. on page 10

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Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Aal this I've carried for fifty years on page 131

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
tongue, carried on. on page 24

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Nicholson, James Lallans 58 - Do whit du’s telt, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
e been a lot worse if you had carried on like that." on page 17

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Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
hay like a kishie but wi nets carried ower his back, held tagidder
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@shaetlan_rose tweeted
aand' (burning peat) was then carried around the outhouses, ridding(2019) search twitter

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
gauns oan, ee ken," th Hatter carried oan, "lik this: - on page 71

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Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
o this crack aboot no getting carried awa! #UlsterScots #GAWA (2014) twitter link