Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'drops'

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Use in varieties of Scots

drops	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.6	18	12
ORK - Orkney	39.7	4	3
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	16.3	3	3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of drops in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ck intae yir mooth. Chist twa drops' ll dae. on page 23

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The orb drops doon an disappears on page 34

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the last drops o moisture back on page 81

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ck intae yir mooth. Chist twa drops'll dae. on page 77

1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@dragraceukbbc when it first drops...(2021)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
pdate: guess who just put eye drops in her lug https://t.co/Q8gpf(2019)

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
A quarter poon' o' pear drops
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
e sure on @Stato_Grant , name drops west coast bias @opengoalspor(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ll ae a sweetness and rainbow drops comin fae behind me: "I haven on page 51

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
FRUIT DROPS KEEP FALLIN ON MA HEAD on page 169

1 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
FRUIT DROPS KEEP FALLIN ON MA HEAD.
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
acher says if your attendance drops much more-' on page 36

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
could move objects, he slowly drops it back doon tae his side. on page 1

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ma stomach drops . The Jubilee Line. They’ll
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
doesnae argue wi that. He drops the fitbaw in his arms and wa on page 18
Dante drops his fag oan the leafy groond on page 47

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ah narra'd ma eyes as drops o rain fell oan ma face. Ah w on page 76
Ma jaw drops, even though ah should o seen on page 91

2 matches