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The word 'kerryin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
kerryinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 5
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of kerryin in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
e tang, and aa the trachle o' kerryin hid up abune the banks tae th
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
first at cam wis ten soldiers kerryin clubs; dey wir aa shapit laek on page 80

2 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
n dere fillin dir kishies, an kerryin it up ta spread ipo da rigs. on page 7
cially whin we heard shü wis kerryin twins. Shü gude awa tae Aibe on page 12
m aa right," he peched, "just kerryin ower muckle weight," bit he w on page 60

3 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
haes da infrastructure tae be kerryin oot censuses. Da idder ting i on page 19

1 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
fell in wi Lowrie o da Punds, kerryin a meshie foo o stray upo his
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
We met an elf kerryin some hey. “Meet Wunorse Ope
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
elottisibrow A collieback wis kerryin somebody on yer back a back i(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ts makin his waiy taewards me kerryin the drinks oan wan ay they we
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
sayed tae it, pickin it up an kerryin it intae tha hoose. Wullie tu on page 18

1 matches

General Ulster

North South Ministerial Council Twa Thoosan an Six - Twalmond Fynnin, (Ullans Speakers Association 2007) Ulster, government
haudit, takkin in tha oncum o kerryin on page 3

1 matches

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