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The word 'dragons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dragonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dragons in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wae these dragons' eggs on page 4

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
- aire is nae sic things as dragons, Nessie aye, bit nae dragons!(2015)
Fitiver neist! Believing in Dragons! Happy St. George’s Day tae (2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
ce. Aa bluey-green snakes, an dragons, an daggers, an things; there
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
tae see if they can catch the dragons, kelpies an' bonny fire dance on page 6

2 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
"Awa ye dragons, or ye'll feel ma steel!" on page 35

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
hou's the burn dragons, see, up on the haughs? on page 21

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
a in the air (which they call Dragons) of a red fiery colour, appea
1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ites that doon an runs aff to Dragons Den?????? (2021) twitter link