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  • I tested the DSL on the vocabulary in "The Eemis Stane" quoted in the linked LH entry and was somewhat disappointed to find that neither eemis nor how-dumb-deid was in there, but there was a nice entry for yowdendrift that actually quoted the poem:

    languagehat.com: SCOTS DICTIONARIES ONLINE. 2004

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  • Lallans (Scottish) dialect - snowfall or blizzard.

    "An' my eerie memories fa'

    Like a yowdendrift."

    - 'The Eemis Stane', Hugh MacDiarmid

    November 22, 2007