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Use in varieties of Scots

drummer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.1 9 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences124 6 0 0 0 2
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of drummer in Corpus

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Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
unexpectit sound. A piper an drummer, brawlie buskit aa green, hae on page 25

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
when she got me a gig as the drummer in her pipe baund when her us on page 8

2 matches

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
t wis thumpin faster than yon drummer. Ye were so wee that ma haund
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
a coo, cloaslcy folly't be a drummer. So, eiss prossesicn wis marc on page 40

3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
2nd Doric related novel, The Drummer Boy, available as paperback a(2016) search twitter
ongs feature in my novel, The Drummer Boy. https://t.co/l80dIG9KUO(2016) search twitter
feature in my new novel, The Drummer Boy. Had tae spik wi English (2017) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Fae tha drummer's bleedin fists, on page 32
Tha drummer houls his canes on page 33

2 matches

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