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The word 'droap'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
droapOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4113
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.5 8 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 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)
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 droap in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he tries tae persuade me tae droap an E. Another prompt rebuff t on page 80
es. Yae could huv heard a pin droap, ah'm tellin yae. Everyboady on page 100
uth. Of course, he's went tae droap an E in celebration ae the wi on page 111
ae ma runners will pick up or droap oaff fur me in case they catc on page 142
uce rolls his eyes anytime ah droap yin, isnae stoappin me. Accor on page 175
Also on pages 180, 192
7 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Shoapaholic, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
A cud shoap tae a droap
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
s fancy suit. Who decided tae droap a crisp twinty quid note inta
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ck along tae the doacturs and droap the hing oaff. And then oan F
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
bit she didnae want tae jist droap the jaur case it gave some po on page 9

1 matches

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