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The word 'dray'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dray in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ke a young lady an nae like a dray-horse. While yer Auntie Jessi
ve like a leddy an nae like a dray-horse, an ye maun forget the
2 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the burn wes nerr dray. We cuidna pruive it an nae a
cryed hiz muise. Braw dray-stane dykes connekkit it aw t
on warks, monie a myle o guid dray-stane dyke bene spulyiet fur
ti halp, bot neded a fouth o dray siller ti creish luifs.
4 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
ll, an stormes at sie, an the Dray Tortugas, an wuld dedes an pl on page 5

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
thie as a cairrieaw, waarm an dray as a bed. The wes confortabil on page 3

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
gaws, A’l can plowter about dray-shod owre maist o the bed oâ€
1 matches

General Central

Bleiman, David Lallans 104 - Ae Fond Kush, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
hae nae mair nor eyns, tsvey, dray. on page 36

1 matches

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