A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'drying'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dryingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 drying in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
k roon aboot an fund the ould drying green at the back o the byre. on page 15

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e ground rather mucky, but is drying of again. Well mother I was j on page 37

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Shetland on Camera 2021) Shetland
rtie wasna in(just some claes drying on da line).

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
e wire fences, hingin fae the drying poles like a flyin fox an nae
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
k done, washing hinging there drying, Whit's nae tae like.. :) I'l (2023) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
ll also be the day laundry is drying aroon the cooker (2022) twitter link