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The word 'crawl'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crawlOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62823
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 5
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of crawl in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Carefully creep and crawl aroond da Keen o Hamar and yo(2017)

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
eis Baggy steil hung on, aye crawl't oot o thi houl, an got a fe on page 49

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
kers: the yae twa species tae crawl ooto the dubs an plyter throw
1 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
ll tae hiz knee. He tried tae crawl .a wee bit mair bit suddenly
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I crawl aboot like a slater on page 74
I'fowk fa enjoy makin abiddy crawl on page 134

2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
n #Irishartists How aboot Pub crawl Good old Brenda Shine some tu(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
g tae dee some night time pub crawl or summming like that! I can (2018)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Hairs crawl oan the back ae the wummin's on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
since ah wis auld enough tae crawl. There's nuttin like the feel on page 113

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
and bocht a dug. Since I cuid crawl my life’s ambition wis tae
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
. Sometimes though, Ailsa wid crawl intae her parents beid and cu
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@learnincurve11 @RyanJL awa n crawl under the bed claes - ya roa (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
lecherous cunt makes ma skin crawl. Ah’ve seen him leerin at s
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
maks me grow weeer, I can aye crawl ablow the door; sae aither we on page 14

1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Crab Toon Crail, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
then crawl back - sidestraddle - oot t on page 40

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e legs stick tae the sides an crawl slowly doon the gless. on page 47

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
An ye try tae crawl back the way aw beasties dae; on page 48

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The lang hours' crawl. on page 79

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
know: all he wants tae do is crawl inside and see what I see. Th
n the flair like he wants tae crawl into the groond, saying he’
I crawl slowly fir a long time so Ali
3 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
rst pincer grip, babble word, crawl
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@MattRichardson3 Just crawl under the table an get oot th(2015)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
As owre knowes an bens Ah crawl on page 68
Red Squirrels crawl across the flair an on page 71

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e scrub frae the time she cud crawl, an she kep on exercisin hir on page 48

1 matches

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