Preposition: that

• bedd: This is the chiel That gaed tae wark tae keep the wife That bore him a bairn that bedd in the hoose Jack biggit.

Converse of object

• have: It would appear that women who chew gum throughout their pregnancy are most at risk from having bouncy bairns.

• see: It was hard for her, to see the bairn healthy and growing when she had none of her own.

• leave: The call up of male teachers had left the bairns bereft of a referee.

• keep: Yes we could use it to keep the bairns away from the firer.

• get: They've got order an ye've got a bairn.

• haed: Geordie haed the bairn - Geordie haed the bairn.

Adjective modifier

• wee: He's going to call the wee bairn John.

• little: You're wrong Michael: Oh, man, what about mothers with pushchairs and little bairns and that, you know?

• bonny: An ' where hest te been, ma bonny bairn?

• other: Daniel comes to play with Scott and they are quickly joined outside by the other bairns visiting the shop.

Modifies a noun

• o: The bairns o ' Adam:the story of the STUC, Edinburgh: Polygon, 1997.

Noun used with modifier

• ma: Aw was up and doon seekin ' for ma hinney; Aw was thro ' the toon seekin ' for ma bairn.

• yeir: Thorfinn: Byde you an leeve wi yeir bairn!

• wi: Thorfinn: Byde you an leeve wi yeir bairn!

• ither: Although they were noble, they liked tae caper jist like ony ither bairns.

• war: Gunlöd: Ye ir richt â we war bairns than.

Possessives

• Klytemnestra: How far I succeeded I can only leave the audience or reader of Klytemnestra's Bairns to judge.