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The word 'dread'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dreadOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72922
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 30.1 6 4
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 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) 174.4 3 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dread in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and I join in, bit I feel the dread creeping intae me laugh. I do on page 85

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
I've a terrible dread that I'll hear't bein said on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
An syne Ah'm fullt wi a new dread: the fear o smellin - o smel on page 45

1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
iss kind o hair style wis ‘dread locks’. I canna see ony mid
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Oh, the dread, the dread. It crept upon him as he slep(2018)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an dread on page 27

1 matches

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
u’re ‘broad-hipped’ then I dread to think fit they’d hae te s(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
This filled thir herts wi dread. on page 21

1 matches

West Central

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
p Jim’s spine as a sense ae dread wis oozin oot his guts. But h
t it doun. Wae ery thump more dread ran through her boady. She th
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ip o somethin ye cuid but cry dread. Somebody had screwit up, big on page 52

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Allan judged the wecht o the dread that hid pressed in oan him f
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
helmin feelin ae inconsolable dread. Ah pit ma jaicket and hoose
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
omach that yi come tae love n dread simultaneously. on page 19

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
The fear ay that dread hittin ye again Is as bad as on page 3

2 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
tae the hoose - 11,14,5. Ah dread tae ask fit wye she wiz near
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
demographics, united in their dread at bein shuttled tae their pl
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
consolin the auld. A spiteful dread expands in the pit ay ma stom
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
t that same aul’ creepin’ dread.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
numbness. But it is only the dread of tears that hurts. Mr Pirri
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
apples Ah cin unnerstaund yer dread, gien whit happened tae the I(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
This nicht a fear and dread on page 16
Before the pig a used tae dread on page 44

2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Faer, ir pity, creepin dread? on page 22
Memrie, thoughts, an fraerful dread, on page 36

3 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An A thoucht wi dawnin dread, on page 22

1 matches

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