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The word 'dragoons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dragoonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.8263
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 234.9 22 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 dragoons in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the big hoose. That nicht the dragoons hid come tae the hoose an tee
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
will o the wisp an leadin the dragoons a richt merry dance ower thé on page 30
d hill congregations frae the dragoons. on page 34
asy side cam rinnin up cryin "Dragoons! Dragoons! ... comin ower the on page 36
laverhouse sent forrit thirty dragoons yn William Cleland shot ane o on page 37
p an killt anither twal o the dragoons afore they made theif escape on page 38
Also on pages 45, 51, 52, 53, 58, 59, 64
22 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
Twenty dragoons attacked the flank o Cameronâ

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ommander an he set oot wi 120 dragoons. He caught sicht o his quarry
onter wis hard an bloody. The dragoons cudna believe hoo fierce they

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