A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dryer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dryerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 dryer in Corpus

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General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
#DrookitHoor ? Ma thrapple's dryer thi'n a Camels erse!(2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah kin feel ma mooth becomin dryer, ma hands gittin sweaty, and on page 119

1 matches

General Central

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 83 - Born Hamelt, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Wi that herr dryer. on page 78

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
tae Kat haufwey atween a blaw-dryer an a food mixer. Whan it had
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
they're shrunk in the tumble dryer! Let's face it he's the only (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
d ti the washin in the tumble dryer and your 1 year old chains th(2019)