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The word 'brendan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brendanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brendan in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e tae take a picter o tham wi Brendan Cole whilst we were on holida(2019)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the park - the interview wae brendan was just top drawer (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rst fitba match against Saint Brendan's wis cancelt cause ae the Or on page 68

1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
eeping my thoughts tae masel' Brendan... Anyhoos, got a bit o' shit (2023) twitter link

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
aein tae mention here though. Brendan Prunty, waeoot Brendan an his on page 1

2 matches

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