A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'breether'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breetherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
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 breether in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
! Wifies in the celebrity big breether hoosie first - fitiver neist!(2017)
bit is a secret Celebrity Big Breether tribute tae Hugh Hefner!(2018)
saw the tuck in Celebrity Big Breether an then gid it a try in the l(2018)
duct placements Celebrity Big Breether, ah’ve already bocht twaa bo(2018)

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
oking forward tae nailing yer breether on saturday? #idlaugh(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nue covered lol n itll no b a breether am stoppin fir - itll b a fa (2020) twitter link