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Use in varieties of Scots

dreary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.6 1.5 0 0 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences139 1 0 0 1 2
Number of authors12 8 1 1 2

Occurrences of dreary in Corpus

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Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
an the greetin o dreary mourners. on page 24

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
euch tae thole months o lang, dreary nichts, courit aither side o on page 56

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Aw we git tae admire is the dreary lookin violated Lego sets the on page 90

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Exiled in this dreary place, this laund o cauldness on page 33

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Sleep, be duin wi dreary days, on page 9

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
un, doun whaur it's daurk and dreary, whaur a doulsome darg, tyavi on page 136

1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
Scots @scotslanguage Mirk and dreary is the nicht, there's no a st(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n folks - who says mondays r dreary - watch this again n yule hu (2020) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Damp an dreary the hale day lang,
1 matches

Southern

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
heir days are dreich, dark an dreary, on page 163

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Frae the dreary plains o' Flanders tae Egypt on page 44

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Dee Har Tha Broon Troot, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
It's driech an dreary,
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