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The word 'drillin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drillinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4135
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 95.6 9 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 drillin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

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

1 matches

Dundee

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

9 matches

Edinburgh

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
1 matches

Glasgow

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
1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
,many years ago. Anyhoo, kept drillin, packin with plastic, but wha(2020)