A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'drills'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drillsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9137
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of drills in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
firm caad Gruneens, that meed drills. He wis a muckle baest o a ma
otheen but the muckle order o drills he wis hopan tae get that day
But on the edge o the toon, drills were caad oot o his mind by s
gs ker park, his mind back on drills.
it herder tae concentrate on drills that morneen. He didna see th
6 matches

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
cut, but teased inta orderly drills wi da flick o da rake. Some a
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ack together and enjoying the drills etc - all good for moral - (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
in o thae high-speed electric drills and ah couple that up tae the on page 18

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
went on, we practiced capsize drills, with an’ without spray dec
1 matches

General Ulster

Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
Mind the drills wi a ready eye,
1 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
Well back doon tae the drills we went as full as we could b
1 matches

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