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The word 'dross'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drossOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41813
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 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 dross in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
prentice so I aalways get the dross." on page 35

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
yged tae fin aboot a fyver en dross, an a kint eit a wid hay tae on page 41

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
an blaik bags o shelbottle an dross, delivered tae yer door. Peat
wis bankit up wi a shovelfu o dross tae keep it gaun, wis aye the
tchie fire was dampit doon wi dross. Meg Ramsay wadna let Minnie
3 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
e wiz a purse wi £70 an some dross. There wiz credit cards bit w
1 matches

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
DRoss isnae a 'posh boy'! He's a te (2020) twitter link
ae in ih NE we spik ih Doric. Dross is a teuchter an aa. Ah'll tr (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
Dross nae consulted https://t.co/Wa(2020)

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Whan ye declare as dross and gane auld declarations th on page 19

1 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
The curn o dross wha’d bid in the hoose afor
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
left the dross o the Appalachian pits for th
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
dy else think that was fuckin dross??(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@RuthDavidsonMSP Dross couldnae slam his boabie on h(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
????? you been blethering tae DRoss ?????? (2022) twitter link
honJacobite Braw D .... maybe DRoss can take lessons fae you when (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
We'll lea a wheen o keech an dross. on page 77

1 matches

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