Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'drawing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

drawing	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.4	18	13
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	21	2	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	15.5	6	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	4
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.1	1	1
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 drawing in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2021) Shetland
I do hae something else on da drawing board

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Online life drawing is goin ta be wan o my lockdo (2020) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ee ever see such a thing as a drawing o a muchness?" on page 72

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
latest haund-drawn pen an ink drawing i' ma pet cushie-doos. She ca(2018)

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
he street wi his flinty sheen drawing spirks frae the steens, Mrs M
scale. I’ll get him to do a drawing , and then try one last animal
2 matches

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
"We will be drawing cubes today", said Mr Gowanlo on page 90

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: image of drawing here in original]
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
Fifa 2018 world cup!" we were drawing 2-2, ah could see ma team mat
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
[NOTE: a drawing here in original]
[NOTE: a drawing here in original]
[NOTE: a drawing here in original]
3 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Jean: Ye're mad. (drawing back her haunds) on page 35

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
noon A.. That's the afternoon drawing in, and it's a bit cauld.. Li (2022) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
hWithMe whur being coached is drawing positive Jacqui oot mair!X? h(2015)
Sunday nicht is slowly drawing tae an end. Tomorrow is the s(2015)

@raiphsays tweeted
@PlanetBGlasgow Oh it a braw drawing!!(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The nicht is drawing in" on page 22

1 matches