(1) At the schools, the bairns pour on to the van all excited, getting to choose their reading material.
(2) Whereas Ed Miliband offered working parents of three and four-year-olds in England 25 hours of free childcare a week if Labour wins the next general election, Salmond targeted families with very wee bairns.
(3) Moreover, your self-acknowledged callousness is surely due to fearfulness that if your man is ill there will be no more food on the table for you and your bairns.
(4) The on-screen CK is a beleaguered, if well-meaning, divorced dad, trying to raise his daughters to an ethical code but realising that such lofty goals are often thwarted by the fact that the bairns can be really, really annoying.
(5) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"
(6) Women at traffic lights and stuck in jams have to make swift calculations as to whether they have time or not to feed their bairns before the cars ahead start rolling or the light switches to green, causing chaos when those judgments prove wrong.
(7) This was a sanitised Burns, though it was admitted that he liked a nip or two and that he fathered a few bairns out of wedlock.
(8) Newsquest, the paper’s owner, already has a couple of large, grown-up Scottish bairns in the shape of the Herald and Sunday Herald.
(9) 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.
(10) That for me was not your best performance I'm weepin' like a bairn!