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droont Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.6 6.6 13.5 0 5.8 20.7 26.6
Number of occurrences3113 9 0 1 2 6
Number of authors22 11 6 1 2 2

Occurrences of droont in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
fir it noo, like, jist aboot droont in ma ain tears! That'll be a on page 21

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
(He wid hae droont if it had been watter). on page 14

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McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
spat, mauchtless! Archie had droont, A telt masel. Archie wis dei on page 25

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t how ma da fell in an nearly droont cause he wis showin aff kiddi on page 169

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
a. Twa wummin, young an auld, droont ower the heid o releegion, in on page 10

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
droont, stabbed an chokit, on page 46

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
may whyles feel they are bein droont oot by strings an chanters, b on page 77

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
nt here an thair, but they're droont in doggerel. The ae poem that on page 122

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
linn whaur twa bairnies were droont, an the wuid whaur a puir chi
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
les o the Ooter Hebrides hauf droont an hailly uninhabitable. He g
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
he wis sayin, as her vyce wis droont oot by the soonds o the ruim
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Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
hat far frae bein dampened or droont by the referendum result, it
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Niven, Liz Burnin Whins, (Luath 2004) Central, poetry
Near droont in canals, robbed o yer pipes
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
onaboot here. Ah heard he wis droont in the Med though.' on page 41

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Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
eed drunk intae sharn pit, an droont. An him wi nae heirs.' on page 84

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e hill intill e loch an were droont. An fan e herd loons saw fit on page 94

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
whirlpool. Ah've seen a stirk droont in it, sweemin roon an roon a on page 17

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Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
ablow, a lang-droont sheep, grey as the nappy on page 18

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
umpit clean oot the watter an droont themsels on the muddy bank. on page 118

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ggit an barin hir fud, like a droont, greyin rotten, tae the fower
till the herbour far a piper droont their skirls till the ship cu
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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
Her een wis droont, drookit wi weet. on page 18

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Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
doos noo, so Ah wull, b' bein droont in ma ain tears! That wudll b on page 20

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Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he waitter, an sadlie hei wis droont.
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Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
unisht fur it noo, bae gittin droont in mae ain tears! That'll bae on page 21

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Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
oard, save iz, or we'll aa be droont!" "Hoo cum yis ir sae feart?" on page 9
ie!" the' caad oot, "we'll be droont!" on page 83
a lough, an tha hale lock wus droont. on page 84
tha wattèr floodit an aa wur droont. It wull be tha same as ït w on page 99

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