A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dreg Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 0 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences41 0 2 0 0 1
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of dreg in Corpus

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Central

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
instances. Sae whaur did they dreg up ‘memmer’?
1 matches

Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae dreg herself doon tae git watter, on page 10

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
d haerd tae man-hannel him an dreg him fae his nest. on page 78

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
he'll clod yis ïntae jail an dreg yis up afore kïngs an heidyi on page 105

1 matches

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