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Use in varieties of Scots

draain Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0.5 7.5 9.9 34.9 0 13.3
Number of occurrences161 5 1 6 0 3
Number of authors10 1 2 1 4 2

Occurrences of draain in Corpus

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Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
The Fower Maries: The net is draain ticht. on page 35

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
nd month o the third year wis draain near, fowk began ti see an af on page 8

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ma pooch tae draa on. I likit draain. Fin I wis draain I wis quate on page 51

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Jed spakk aa this wioot draain braith: it hid bin dinned inn
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
When nights are draain in aboot and days are dark an on page 70

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
you ever see sic a thing as a draain o a moaderation?" on page 76
he said wi grett respect, but draain doon his broos an makkin face on page 119

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Dis isna mi mindin o life-draain at da scöl on page 86

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Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
en castin a flee or a fiddler draain a bow. Bit dan life doesna ay
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
tell us da nichts'll shun be draain in...(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
eeck fowk. Then as evenin wus draain in, his follaers cum tae hïm on page 9
chariah wus pïckt oot bi tha draain o lots - like tha preeshts a on page 69

2 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
wark fur oul age (gin ye’r draain a pension or no)
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