A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

drying Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 0 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences63 0 2 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of drying in Corpus

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Central

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
e wire fences, hingin fae the drying poles like a flyin fox an nae
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
k done, washing hinging there drying, Whit's nae tae like.. :) I'l (2023) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
ll also be the day laundry is drying aroon the cooker (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
k roon aboot an fund the ould drying green at the back o the byre. on page 15

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e ground rather mucky, but is drying of again. Well mother I was j on page 37

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Shetland on Camera 2021) Shetland
rtie wasna in(just some claes drying on da line).

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