A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dreck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dreckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dreck in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e fer a band whause tunes are dreck?) are aye tellin us, this las on page 11
vver accepit the hand-me-doun dreck that wis on page 14
ut gin ye cannae see thru sic dreck, ye need yer heid lookit! on page 28
that it refleckit reality is dreck. It wis a deliberate attempt on page 64

4 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck on page 8
full tae burstin wi dreck o thir times we're in. Yon ti on page 77

2 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
ie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck
1 matches

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