Sentence examples for bairn from inspiring English sources
"bairn" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a Scottish word of Old English origin meaning "child" or "baby". It can be used in both formal and informal contexts. Example: "The bairn cooed in her mother's arms, her little face lit up with joy."
Will this changing pattern of immigration in time change Scottish perceptions as to just who is and who isn't a bairn of Jock Tamson?
A few Scottish words, such as bairn, brae, canny, dour, and pawky, have made their way into RP.
By this time he was cross the ford, Whare, in the snaw, the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Chairlie brak 's neck-bane; And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel'.
Authentic replicas of everything you can think of: the wee kirk where Annie Laurie prayed when but a bairn, the church that moved Gray to write his elegy, and (in Hollywood Hills) Boston's Old North Church.
"Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn".
Stunned by what I saw as control-freakery and barbarism I resolved to put my baby to my breast when she was hungry, and there she would fall into deep slumber, like a good little hunter-gatherer bairn.
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Going wild Bog standards Bairns needed Fly me, I'm cheap Meacher's moment ReprintsA shrinking population is both cause and effect of low economic growth: people move away from slow-growing areas, thus further slowing the growth.
Although outsiders are sometimes enthusiastic about their children learning Gaelic, language campaigners admit that many locals have long thought that it is English that matters most for their bairns' future.
Going wild Bog standards Bairns needed Fly me, I'm cheap Meacher's moment ReprintsThe first woodland burial site in Britain opened in 1993.
Offshoring could help solve several problems afflicting rich-world economies, including that of ageing populations: after all, you get more bairns for your buck in Bangalore.
