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The word 'dreary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drearyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 3
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dreary in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Damp an dreary the hale day lang,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Aw we git tae admire is the dreary lookin violated Lego sets the on page 90

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
un, doun whaur it's daurk and dreary, whaur a doulsome darg, tyavi on page 136

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n folks - who says mondays r dreary - watch this again n yule hu (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
euch tae thole months o lang, dreary nichts, courit aither side o on page 56

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Exiled in this dreary place, this laund o cauldness on page 33

1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
Scots @scotslanguage Mirk and dreary is the nicht, there's no a st(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
an the greetin o dreary mourners. on page 24

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
heir days are dreich, dark an dreary, on page 163

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Sleep, be duin wi dreary days, on page 9

2 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Frae the dreary plains o' Flanders tae Egypt on page 44

1 matches

General Ulster

Dee Har Tha Broon Troot, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
It's driech an dreary,
1 matches

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