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The word 'dries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
driesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dries in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
R Grand drowth tho. Nort wind dries all id weets(2020)

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
anna gying on da aert till it dries oot. Ah'm seen some fokk no g on page 8

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Grun dries up for us tae see.
For the grun dries up, turnin tae stue.
2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Country side dries up sae bonny an braw,
1 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
glaess, and then it rins and dries and ye cannae read it. But I
1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
e best for eatin as the flesh dries a bit in the mooth, but the j(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
But dries up, clears aff, lik' a mirage on page 48

1 matches

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