A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'drivan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drivanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney 89.4 9 4
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of drivan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ry road will tak you, whether drivan or on feet, on page 37
r gales are here again - the drivan winds, the lashan rain. Broll on page 75

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Drivan Up West on page 18

3 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
ird, teu. And in any weather. Drivan rain, howlan wind, freezan co
1 matches

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
isance o wirsaels in the back drivan home and she couldna git home
I said, ‘Yir drivan me faither’s car!’
2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
or sheep oot in that endless, drivan rain and wind, wind and rain.
1 matches

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