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The word 'brekfast'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brekfastOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2147
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 12.9 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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 brekfast in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
s whan they come in fur their brekfast. Their moornin's? Weel, that' on page 11
d tae gan through tae pit his brekfast kipper on the table in front on page 17

2 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
Hamemade broon breid fur brekfast! She niver got the message we on page 7

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
xpensive, shuggary cereal for brekfast, mebbe we shuid try cookin th
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the guid-wife's kitchen aboot brekfast time, when the shepherd an pl
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'I'm thinkin it is time for brekfast, she added suin efter. 'Gin y on page 31
were gey handy fo, heatin his brekfast in the morn. He had ae volcan on page 34

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
there. The animals had their brekfast, and then Snawbaw and Napoleo on page 6

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
note while they chowed their brekfast, a daud o grim, gray parritch on page 31
oot tae pour himsel a wee bit brekfast, but when he saw the book he on page 96
wance I've sortit yese a guid brekfast." on page 159

4 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Weekend brekfast treat. Hame made @joao_kay ai(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
en juist i tyme tae hae thair brekfast an stert anither days wurk.
1 matches

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