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Carn vs Larn - What's the difference?

carn | larn |

As an adjective carn

is short, small, and with a raised tip.

As a verb larn is

(northern england) especially (geordie) to teach or to learn.

carn

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (Australia, informal) Come on.
  • (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
  • * 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", '' The Argus
  • * 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
  • * 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age
    • Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
  • * 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", '' Herald Sun

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    larn

    English

    Verb

  • (Northern England) especially (Geordie) To teach or to learn.
    • Larn yersel te taalk propa like!

    See also

    * learn (Standard English) * teach (Standard English)

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