Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'drooth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

drooth	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.3	21	13
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	22.9	7	3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	15.5	6	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 drooth in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Man, hit's dry t'die o drooth on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
For he'd an unquenchable drooth on page 15

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
say, 'Tak a leuk o att gutsy drooth, freen till e tax mannies an on page 92

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wer their porch his lane wi a drooth like his.'
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
an! Some flash! A junkie an a drooth – a kirn made bi the Earl o
anda Sangster wis: a bully, a drooth , an orral – bit as fur Neil
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ter’s scarce ye see wi this drooth .. An onywye, ma gairden hose
drooth . Aa this veesitin wis thirsty
2 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The Fox he had an awfie drooth on page 22

3 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
green, in the hope o' a guid drooth tae git it dried that day. Ay on page 4

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ma roses niver ken the drooth
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
aff a drooth he canna on page 15
a drooth that's never satit on page 71

2 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Fidgin wi blood-drooth, his spear in his haun. on page 22

1 matches

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
evious motives. A wee bit o a drooth, I'll grant ye, but there's n on page 32

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An niver staps fur breeth nor drooth, on page 22

1 matches

Hanna, Wendy Gaitherin’ Purdas!, (Facebook - Schomberg Society 2020) Ulster, poetry
e’ll no be long workin up a drooth ,
1 matches