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Use in varieties of Scots

dries Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 0.5 6 9.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences81 4 1 1 0 1
Number of authors6 1 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of dries in Corpus

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Central

@billykayscot tweeted
e best for eatin as the flesh dries a bit in the mooth, but the j(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Grun dries up for us tae see.
For the grun dries up, turnin tae stue.
2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Country side dries up sae bonny an braw,
1 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
glaess, and then it rins and dries and ye cannae read it. But I
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
R Grand drowth tho. Nort wind dries all id weets(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
anna gying on da aert till it dries oot. Ah'm seen some fokk no g on page 8

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
But dries up, clears aff, lik' a mirage on page 48

1 matches

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