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The word 'dra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
draOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dra in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Feirst dra ye baith doon tae ma chamber, on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@chaz50_duncan Ring oot yer dra’wers Gerrard ye whining hoor(2018)
oon mair times thi’n a hoors dra’wers #iamaceleb #ItsCominHam(2019)
ClubDoricana stick tae makin' dra'ers Ye giep #CalvinClyne(2015)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s! Jammy gits getting an easy dra! #SwedenvsEngland(2018)
r that’s been in the kitchen dra’er since early 80’s & telt (2020)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
@CraigMcPheat Dra'ers aff weather in Edinburgh.(2014)

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
aaach, aye, the days are far dra’n oot(2019)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Ooty sicht, tae dra awa on page 20

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Vintage traictors pit on a dra on page 5

1 matches

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