A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

drier Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.1 4.5 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences94 3 0 1 1 0
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of drier in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ma mooth feels drier than a pavement oan a hoat su on page 54

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
eside the mirrors an the hair drier. Charlene wis the best swimme on page 14

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
eside the mirrors an the hair drier. Charlene wis the best swimme
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
George Street. Ma mooth feels drier than a grannies wrinkly auld
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
The grun starts to turn drier and safter wie patches o gras
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
slates are looking a bit tie drier noo that's the method o weath(2020) search twitter
wis a dummy Bobby wee a hair drier at a village fae Perth throug(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Böd, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
da drier oot o hei,
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ds clothes-horse or maiden or drier just dinnae hae the same poet(2020) search twitter