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The word 'driech'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
driechOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 31 7 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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) 58.1 1 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of driech in Corpus

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Aberdeen

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

General Northern

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

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)
Ats a day gone full driech noo(2020)
It's driech(2020)

Edinburgh

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

General 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

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

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

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

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

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

General Ulster

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

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