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The word 'brambles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bramblesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 brambles in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
He teirs through brambles and through whins: They'll sc on page 15
tumbled folly's beckoning Yet brambles obscure the track: on page 63

2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
umn efternoons and there were brambles and skirps o auld man's beard on page 175

1 matches

General Central

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
ets wi their blackberries fur brambles and swedes fur neeps, jist be
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
e oor stravaig. The ane o the brambles - whiles sweet, whiles wersh(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Encroaching brambles grasp yer tyres on page 34

1 matches

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