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The word 'drount'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
drountOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3114
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 1
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 3
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 drount in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
is nou, I suppose, by getting drount in my ain tears! That will be on page 20

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
battened doun ablow decks, an drount by a murderous captain wha re on page 39
ark an whaups on the moss wis drount oot by the ringin clang o mel on page 80

3 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
As I a Norloch witch had drount lang syne, on page 7
Drount shout an stummle whan the tra on page 25
an outlan shore a bairn liggs drount. on page 30
I dout he drount, like mony mair on page 50
Be not in discord drount. on page 61

5 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
it wid be that Easter he wis drount in the quarry. In thae days w on page 54

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
-rule wis affen gien a bye an drount in the politics o Westmaister
1 matches

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