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The word 'drones'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dronesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4146
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 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 drones in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
thunders, rattles, pierces an drones, on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Thi drones cam soonin in. on page 24
Thi drones they soonded magical, on page 28

2 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
rried aboot the prospect o’ drones zooming aboot the place wi’
Are these drones battery powered, and fit happ
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Insteed, they want mindless drones sittin aboot scratchin their on page 92

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
orse, ah dinnae jist mean the drones we've aw heard aboot on socia
on social media. Ah mean the drones in suits, the drones on panel
in suits, the drones on panels, the drones on TV.
on panels, the drones on TV. The drones in pairliam
on TV. The drones in pairliament, thae Jumbotro
6 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Drones and laser-guidit orbital fire on page 83
Surveillance drones ye canna see. on page 105

2 matches

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