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The word 'bress'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bressOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91915
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bress in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A bress band started up is wae steppe on page 91

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
, an apo da door wis a sheeny bress plate wi da name "W. RABBIT" on page 34

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
we hiv boxes a fine polished bress Nivver see the postie - nor on page 15

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"Na ..." he said, "it wis the bress hatted ... buggers ... in Ber on page 19

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
get the circulation gaan. ‘Bress monkeys would be gey unxious
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General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
e the name "Baatie", hed on a bress collar'-jist imagine caain aa on page 45

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North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
y were thrawn-lookin birds wi bress feathers and beaks as strang on page 27

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Ian ettilt tae lowse the bress screws o the big auld hinges on page 96

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Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
an bete the fyre frae the bress bunker at the chimla lug. Why
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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
the week an that loat hae the bress face...”
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West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Chrysanths, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
the burnished bress o vases
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Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
e yoe, ir upo the clifts wi a bress keikin gless; aw evinin he se on page 4

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
on the door wis wis a bricht bress plate, wi the name W. RABBIT on page 33

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General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
It wis a mirror framed in bress, on page 21

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ey, wi her haund on the shiny bress door-haundle, wis an aulder w on page 19

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Robertson, James The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e a warm stove. The stove had bress knobs that gleamed in the low on page 51

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
s wey. He wis strauchlin wi a bress fender is lang’s hessel wha
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ocht, an had a luk in tha oul bress scuttel sittin fornenst tha h on page 17

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General Ulster

Smyth, Anne I Corinthians 13, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster, prose
a hert A’m the like o boast bress or less a tinglin cymbal.
1 matches

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