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Examples
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Some ca '[321-10] the pleugh, some herd, some tentie [321-11] rin
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Some ca '[7] the pleugh, some herd, some tentie [8] rin
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Wi 'tentie care I'll flit thy tether [attentive, change]
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Some ca 'the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin [drive, heedful run]
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"Nor pass the tentie curious lad, Who o'er the ingle hangs his head, And begs of neighbours books to read; For hence arise Thy country's sons, who far are spread, Baith bold and wise."
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Some ca '[18] the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin 30
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Some tentie rin a cannie errand to a neebor town, some, heedful, run on a quiet errand to a neighboring town.
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Some ca 'thepleugh, fome herd, fome tentie rin Acannie errand to a neebor town:
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bilby commented on the word tentie
Scots - cautious.
August 2, 2008