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The word 'abreid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
abreidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 1
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 abreid in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
ns Hairst, his aipples skailt abreid the yird; on page 216

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ns Hairst, his aipples skailt abreid the yird; on page 149

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
un the seck, skailt some corn abreid, but he laid the towe doun in on page 42

4 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
aunders forbye, thaim at rade abreid at nicht, riggit out whiles
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
™s: at wur juist afore A gaed abreid tae wurk. Yid Scott, ae smedd
. Yid deyd i 1952, whan A wis abreid.
Watt an his men wur abreid, herrien ither focks cattle,
Whan A wur abreid i the 1950’s, yon wudden bu
A hed juist spent ten ‘ear abreid; muther naiter bringin fouth
5 matches

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