A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'drier'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drierOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of drier in Corpus

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Shetland

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

Aberdeen

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

General Northern

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

(South) East 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

West Central

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

Edinburgh

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

South West (Galloway)

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