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Use in varieties of Scots

drawing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 5.1 6 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1710 4 0 2 1 0
Number of authors12 6 3 2 1

Occurrences of drawing in Corpus

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Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Jean: Ye're mad. (drawing back her haunds) on page 35

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: image of drawing here in original]
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
Fifa 2018 world cup!" we were drawing 2-2, ah could see ma team mat
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
[NOTE: a drawing here in original]
[NOTE: a drawing here in original]
[NOTE: a drawing here in original]
3 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
noon A.. That's the afternoon drawing in, and it's a bit cauld.. Li (2022) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
hWithMe whur being coached is drawing positive Jacqui oot mair!X? h(2015) search twitter
Sunday nicht is slowly drawing tae an end. Tomorrow is the s(2015) search twitter

@raiphsays tweeted
@PlanetBGlasgow Oh it a braw drawing!!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ee ever see such a thing as a drawing o a muchness?" on page 72

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
he street wi his flinty sheen drawing spirks frae the steens, Mrs M
scale. I’ll get him to do a drawing, and then try one last animal
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
latest haund-drawn pen an ink drawing i' ma pet cushie-doos. She ca(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2021) Shetland
I do hae something else on da drawing board

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Online life drawing is goin ta be wan o my lockdo (2020) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The nicht is drawing in" on page 22

1 matches

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