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The word 'crying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cryingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9169
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of crying in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ransfer a patient. As well as crying for the patient and their lov(2020)

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and de
oss the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the s
Chris Guthrie, wi her peewits crying and the smell o earth in her
3 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
chin properly! Brek-in!!! Fer crying oot lood! What a clown that m(2018)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
soul wis in torment, weeping, crying, on page 19

1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
But when a went inside Da wis crying intae the floor. He wis even on page 39
There wis a few folk ootside crying. A didnae even think that Wen on page 40

4 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
mist, where the heathowl was crying; on page 48

1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Crab Toon Crail, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
crying gulls, rough cobbl't streets, on page 40

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
wirds crying oot inti the stour an wind. on page 25
Wirds, wirds - crying inti the air an dust, on page 26

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
uite clearly the day the name crying started. It wis aboot two yea
ma heid hung in shame, still crying, but now quite openly. Mrs Mc
2 matches

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