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The word 'brief'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
briefOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.93822
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 488.3 3 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 4
WCE - West Central 41.4 9 3
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 brief in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
wi saft layers o clood, an a brief wash o pink whan the sun gied
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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
t a US Base in Scotland, wi a brief tae learn the youngsters (and on page 126

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
t a US Base in Scotland, wi a brief tae learn the youngsters (and
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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
the brief diamonds:
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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
fraid tae yaise thum. Takin a brief scan ae the room and seein th on page 37
Fur a brief moment we sit back in oor com on page 173
During ma brief trip tae the hospital fae Lei on page 176
ing wid be awright. And fur a brief moment there her words helped on page 186

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
t for the cultural pert o his brief, sen, i the past, he haes run
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
an dae nae better than read A Brief History of Seven Killings by
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Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
The service wis aw too brief. “They huv a really busy sc
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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
III A BRIEF MOMENT O INSIGHT on page 37
A Brief History o Time on page 143

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ew ti ma hame address, but ma brief is on page 6

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
plays an academic skreids ‘brief’. But for aw, the’r nae d
aer i the fack that, maugre a brief time o writin i the 40s that
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Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
much tae remark upon. Efter a brief period o neglect i'the early
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Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
naps in twa. Anely connect. A brief tether o unnerstaunin an then
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Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
through my ain timeline, yon brief history o engagement, aw the
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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
isnae a space but a vacuum, a brief lull atween oor serenity an w
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
isgrace (mind that A haud nae brief fer the snp ither than bein r on page 49

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
iar faces, el even throw in a brief on page 1

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
wis waitin’ fir Callum tae brief the group an’ fir them tae
ect it, then came back up tae brief the ithir. Noo there’s a te
o’ the river she reached a brief period o’ equilibrium, whau
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
thair parachutes they saw the brief orange licht. Than there wis
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ae Gibson instruments man. Ma brief foray intae the arts was oer
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General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
ce that mornin. For twa-three brief moments he had touched wi the on page 104

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Mankind, then mak Thy fanfare brief on page 61

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MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Puir finch yer time wi us wis brief on page 13

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
orby. But the intries is mair brief tae the Companion an the'r na on page 130

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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
the factory for a brief time, wi nae fash, ti kep the
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McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
st year, whan it leukit for a brief while that we micht be the an
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@Chazzbat tweeted
car coughed intae life an the brief magic spell wis broken.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Within yer'sel respite but brief on page 7
he time near gone, yer tenure brief on page 26
time near gone, both tenures brief on page 54

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South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Oh path wi nae retour! Hou brief the time on page 14

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