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The word 'draughts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
draughtsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of draughts in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
er he tried to sit there were draughts that creepit aboot his feet o
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
pupils were shriven by snell draughts. In the het o summer the preh on page 37

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ma heid ablo foonerin, dingin draughts, on page 43

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ade turn-oots, cobs an Airish Draughts, side-seddle clesses an aa, on page 21

1 matches

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