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The word 'carries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carriesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61212
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 carries in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
, didna exist. Her skellochin carries on and on. It begins owerwhel
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
gweed thing, ere wis nae big carries. Farthest in tae the close
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
hodrama of how Scottish fitba carries oot it’s affairs through the (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ly returns wae the drinks and carries oan where he hud left. Sleasi on page 80

1 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
’ aboot my mental health - > carries on tae be a total dickhead. N (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
lue as well an the blue paper carries oor news tae Gran an the rest on page 18

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a big way. What do you think carries more mystique and reverence,
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
in a knapsack pocket she carries Trosky's ochre seas on page 11

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 59 - Eleiven Quad Bike Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Carries its auld toonfolk's name. on page 114

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
??A’m shocked!ANYONE who carries the Name @clydefc IS @clydefc(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
layed cheaply 'for many, golf carries the essence of national ident on page 84

1 matches

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