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The word 'cairtie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cairtieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9137
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cairtie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah'd hurled oan ma hame-made cairtie wis chokit wi weeds. on page 86

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
-deep in barley parks. Wi'd a cairtie made fae pram wheels aat gid on page 21

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
them intae a bobbydazzler o a cairtie. They war
ma, yon’s the bonniest wee cairtie a loon cud iver hae gotten,â€
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
whae aa gat Somethin aff his cairtie, on page 211

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Cairtie or bogey. https://t.co/gdLuJV(2020)

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
ther Adam. Faither Adam hed a cairtie, an ti draw the cairtie a tot on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
answered, and they grabbed a cairtie each and gaed wheechin awa do on page 57

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
hurlin in ma cairtie, ay, we'll wheech awa thegith on page 21
caain ma draigon cairtie, see, the thunner-rider on page 27
hurlin in ma watter-cairtie, see, wi ruif o the lillies on page 28
magnolia cairtie, ay, cannel-weavit pensel on page 29

4 matches

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