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Use in varieties of Scots

driech Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 2 11.8 0 0 0 14.5
Number of occurrences154 8 0 0 0 3
Number of authors10 4 4 3

Occurrences of driech in Corpus

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Central

Le Marie, Nicole Lallans 102 - Daffs, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Interruptin the driech on page 77

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Nae comet lichted thon dairk, driech plain, on page 23

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Chinged auld careers, driech an’ tired!
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
Morning peeps.. Mmm, a bit driech looking oot there.. Intermitt (2022) twitter link

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
. But he also kent it was gye driech oot the nicht, an that he did on page 72

1 matches

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
n! - Sair needit efter a gey driech hinner eyn. on page 25

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Dull an driech mair like November.
Driech mornin wi a fer sup o rain,
Dull an driech, an it rains as weel,
3 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@oilypaws Be a gey driech moon min(2020) search twitter
Ats a day gone full driech noo(2020) search twitter
It's driech(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An tha hail driech wurld forbye on page 17

1 matches

Lennox, Rab Yarns 3 - Ulster-Scot frae Magherafelt, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymoney, poetry
In oor direction, in driech Mid Ulster
1 matches

Dee Har Tha Broon Troot, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
It's driech an dreary,
1 matches

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