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Use in varieties of Scots

drones Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 4.6 6 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences149 4 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of drones in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Insteed, they want mindless drones sittin aboot scratchin their on page 92

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Drones and laser-guidit orbital fire on page 83
Surveillance drones ye canna see. on page 105

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
orse, ah dinnae jist mean the drones we've aw heard aboot on socia
on social media. Ah mean the drones in suits, the drones on panel
in suits, the drones on panels, the drones on TV.
on panels, the drones on TV. The drones in pairliam
on TV. The drones in pairliament, thae Jumbotro
6 matches

Doric

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Thi drones cam soonin in. on page 24
Thi drones they soonded magical, on page 28

2 matches

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
rried aboot the prospect o’ drones zooming aboot the place wi’
Are these drones battery powered, and fit happ
2 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
thunders, rattles, pierces an drones, on page 19

1 matches

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