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The word 'dastreen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dastreenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6229
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 127.9 22 9
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
LAL - General Central
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 dastreen in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
gie Ann wis in aboot da night dastreen, an telt me her Peter wis say on page 5
r darken dis door, he telt me dastreen, 'till shü comes tae her sen on page 17

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
a fin yun lass at I danced wi dastreen," he sed. "Bit naebody can te on page 35

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
bag) ~ owsed (I owsed him oot dastreen) on page 72
him oot dastreen 'I emptied it out last night' on page 73
wir a dratsi inna da gairden dastreen. on page 87

8 matches

Mainland, Jim Performance (After Les Murray), (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
I starred dastreen, I shon;
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
r hill an I hed a yarn wi him dastreen. He’s looking forward tae v
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
a trusset trowie beard, foo o dastreen’s supper an flechs. Dat is
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
cliché durin da DCC meeting dastreen... couldna git mysel aff mute (2020) twitter link
Dreamt dastreen dat I wis Very Unprepared fir (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I spent da night in toon dastreen and woke tae da soond o somee(2013)
ery o Mom's mince and totties dastreen.(2014)
@mostlyotters I saw een dastreen. It mighto been da sam wan da(2020)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Magic time oot wast dastreen. Thank you @MarjoleinR ??????(2019)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
a sleepover at da grandfolks dastreen. Day time gaming fur meeee!! (2019) twitter link
y yisterday for yesterday and dastreen for last night (2018) twitter link

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