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The word 'drip'
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Use in varieties of Scots drip Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 4 13 10 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
21.9
2
2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
2.5
1
1
WCE - West Central
18.4
4
2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
18.8
3
2
GLA - Glasgow
4.6
1
1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
1.3
1
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
14.1
1
1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)
Occurrences of drip in Corpus
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the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Aberdeen
Strachan, Shane DWAMS , (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
drip , drap, dreepin - on page 19
1 matches
Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared , (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
sae he can drip himsel dry on page 54
1 matches
(South) East Central
Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind , (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
on. They reek ae it. And they drip affluence fae their pours. Ya on page 47
1 matches
West Central
Percy, Ely Duck Feet , (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ah'd be pure hooked up tae a drip pure Holby City style pure ma on page 150
1 matches
Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY , (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
asked by the rains continuous drip , drip, drip…The singin —
, drip, drip …The singin — if ye could
2 matches
Edinburgh
McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems , (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Endeavour's drip -feed wrangly veined. on page 18
1 matches
McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times , (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
come tae E.V.I.P., negitively drip , drip,
, drip ,
2 matches
Glasgow
Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute , (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
inside ay her airm where the drip is inserted under her skin dr
1 matches
General Central
@weenell3 tweeted
under him on stage and he can drip his sweat over us... nae joke (2022) twitter link
General Ulster
@the_gellick tweeted
he day - naethin tae dae wi # DRIP ? http://t.co/fJXOqobCU9 (2014) twitter link