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Use in varieties of Scots

brainy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 7.4 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1614 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors9 7 2

Occurrences of brainy in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
A brainy chiel they ca'd Einstein. on page 8

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Wis smert and brainy as could be. on page 44

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'Wis he brainy?" on page 51
e ken their dochter wis awfie brainy. Efter aw Mr Wormwidd wis dae on page 85

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ty ah don't know how sumdy as brainy as you can be dead stupit at on page 104
nae imagine him gaun wi sumdy brainy. It said in the paper that Le on page 126
e these folk that's naturally brainy, she's sittin the Credit pape on page 169

3 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
Ma Maw thinks I'm gey brainy, like. Aw I'm needin is tae " on page 14

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d Sunny Baudelaire were richt brainy bairns, and they were gallus on page 1
sses that made him look richt brainy. Weel, he wis brainy. The Bau on page 3

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Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
lain this: research (by ither brainy gadgies fae Amerikay) has sha
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Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“This certifies ye as super brainy.” he said.
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ers o Arts degree so he wis a brainy cheel.

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"It's fit a brainy bloke like yersel wid caa a m on page 88

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@Manuforti1968 tweeted
obviously hid tae ask my mair brainy sources, i.e the wife an her (2019) search twitter

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