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The word 'drill'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drillOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.75213
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 26.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee 308 29 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 142.2 5 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of drill in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
fae da lasses daday is lik a drill to my brain (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hts oot wi Eric at Ah ken the drill." Winnie smiled it er freen. on page 18

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
drill fingers and dryholes... on page 11
Grab 'em by the... drill pipe on page 20

2 matches

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
us next tae it which held the drill and poking devices on it ,and
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ry nod. He seemed tae ken the drill. Didnae ring the bell, just w on page 1

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@wewillnot22 they cannae - a drill fell fae the sky n dented the (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
le in sic a way that when the drill turns, it turns the cable bac on page 18
e mileage back wi an electric drill?' young Michael asked. on page 19
ages o motors wi his electric drill So that he widnae look like a on page 26
the gear-boxes, the electric drill on the speedometer cables, a on page 44

6 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
lad that went ontae ane o the drill rigs for the first time, that on page 46
ny times, partickJarly on the drill floor, whan fowk were daein a on page 47
twenty thousan feet whan the drill-bit broke. on page 48
ither drill crew wha were sleepin at the on page 49
ae get back tae wark. The new drill bit wis fittit an it wis time on page 50
Also on pages 51, 52, 53
29 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
otten it. Richt, noo thoo can drill wi the ithers.”
d been ordert tae a wappons drill. The Wanderers wad think twic
2 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
knew the drill fae his young days, we wouldn
1 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
moss hole, peat st'ak an each drill, on page 30

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Whiles, forenent, a drill dirls doon on page 27

1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
And danner up the big lang drill to take your place for the da
e oul '65 a trundlin doon the drill
efter her and kickin oot the drill.
e, right folks thats the last drill"
4 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
oot, suns oot... this isnea a drill @SgothanGeal ....windeas doon (2021) twitter link

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