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Use in varieties of Scots

drillin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 6.2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1312 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of drillin in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
in the North Sea. It had been drillin oot in the Far East an the Gu on page 47
i aw the wages, the steel for drillin, the fuel needit tae keep the on page 48
re it wuid be time tae stairt drillin agin an they cuid aw tak thin on page 50
an awbodie wis wantin tae get drillin agin an they were aw prayin, on page 51

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Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Men wur shootin, drills wur drillin, and rivets wur clankin intae
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
d leuk in whiles whan she wis drillin. The quate days o shewin on t
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@MartinBroon tweeted
,many years ago. Anyhoo, kept drillin, packin with plastic, but wha(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nib in the air es the soun o drillin fullt the kitchen. on page 25

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