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The word 'drug'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drugOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1268
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 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 2
WCE - West Central 46 10 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 drug 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.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
doon under the effect's o the drug sheu wid smother, wae hid tae on page 16

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rrifeed in their ain hames bi drug-fuelled gangs o halflins. She
n aff tae sleep, the pre-med. drug makkin him dwaumy, near ready
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
. Seemingly there wiz a lot o drug takin aboot the toon noo a da
y sleepin aff their drink and drug filled souls.
an assassin gan aboot killin drug dealers and so far there’d
een the deed wiz they were aa drug dealers baith big and smaa. B
4 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
essions, like lap dancing and drug dealing. Still, I canna say I
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
eeds the hing his hard-earned drug money. Though yae cannae quit on page 35
nd cheats. Ah jist hoap she's drug tested efter the match. The m on page 119
t financial support fur local drug dealers. And at the end ae th on page 143
vast variety ae shoaplifters, drug dealers, and the clinically i on page 169

4 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
jmc1066 sure theres a miracle drug sum where brother lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
anybody in here's ever took a drug. Only him an Tommy Campbell a on page 128
tion sheets aboot a different drug. Oors wis amyl nitrate an it on page 129
If your cousin wis a big mad drug dealer that's awready pure ki on page 133
n yir-auld-outpatient fae the drug an alcohol abuse unit two bui on page 153

10 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ters. The petty criminals and drug dealers who form the criminal
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
drug-lairds huckle intae jail on page 21
an interfaith drug-ring on page 51

2 matches

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