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Use in varieties of Scots

drinking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 4.6 9 19.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences189 6 2 0 1 0
Number of authors15 9 3 2 1

Occurrences of drinking in Corpus

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Central

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
shaggin lassies in the daurk, drinking cider n British sherry. Nae E
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
d beard riding an old ass and drinking from a horn
1 matches

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
, an ah ken ye didnae like me drinking. But when ah opened ma een th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
otice a bunch ay neds staunin drinking, makin a bloody nuisance ay t
1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
g tae tak up a lot o valuable drinking time, so I suggested we sat a
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
wifes boyfriend a retard for drinking while on his anti psychotic m(2020) search twitter

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
f Nicola Sturgeon for banning drinking in pubs and restaurants for a(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
bug Reminds me of a very late drinking night wi ma pal Mr Ellsworth (2022) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
pals an being pressured intae drinking each time, an treated like a (2021) twitter link

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
t's aawye. I aaywiz dee if um drinking bit the noo it's every nicht.(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
Oot phone app drinking(2020) search twitter
ight nae winner we were binge drinking(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s aboot? A buttery to stop me drinking at the Fittie Bar? Fit next? (2016) search twitter
an himself, so here he is, my drinking partner Bert. Bars open soon (2016) search twitter
bit fan it means an exile fae drinking in the Fittie bar due tae yon(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
ebration wis immense, and the drinking wis legendary. It wis aal the
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@LesleyTotten No smoking, no drinking and no more messing aboot, Ay(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
xt ti is get up after eating& drinking get up and leave. The waiter (2019) search twitter