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The word 'adrift'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
adriftOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.899
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of adrift in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
cast adrift fae me island. on page 19

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
andages oan ur toes is cummed adrift and its trellan ahint ur. Tha on page 87

1 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Adrift ida doldrims. on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
towes aathegither an set him adrift on his ain wee sea o booze, b
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
eir wee skaffie boat hid wint adrift an wiz wrecked roon at the Sc
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ness. She had been feelin cut adrift onywey by the preparations ta
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e's life. Nou her faither wis adrift in a fremmit place, an she cl on page 27

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
n strand an land, were lowsed adrift on page 33

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
ret years, the swans were set adrift in the wile wild an solitary
1 matches

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