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The word 'brammer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brammerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 brammer in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
's richt weel kent and it's a brammer. If it's ower lang, jist let on page 9
y took it oot wanst a year. A brammer o a bargain. Aye, ah wis rich on page 79

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
y thocht, if they made a pure brammer o a meal, Coont Olaf micht be on page 42
in awa as if he'd jist telt a brammer o a joke. on page 102

2 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
The Bampot Bat's a brammer, on page 16

1 matches

@GMacminto tweeted
kayscot Ay, A doot it'll be a brammer. (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@a_leslie74 @RabLennox A pure brammer ??(2020)