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The word 'brainy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brainyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9169
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 23 5 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brainy in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"It's fit a brainy bloke like yersel wid caa a m on page 88

1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
obviously hid tae ask my mair brainy sources, i.e the wife an her (2019)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
A brainy chiel they ca'd Einstein. on page 8

1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
lain this: research (by ither brainy gadgies fae Amerikay) has sha
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“This certifies ye as super brainy.” he said.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'Wis he brainy?" on page 51
e ken their dochter wis awfie brainy. Efter aw Mr Wormwidd wis dae on page 85

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ty ah don't know how sumdy as brainy as you can be dead stupit at on page 104
nae imagine him gaun wi sumdy brainy. It said in the paper that Le on page 126
e these folk that's naturally brainy, she's sittin the Credit pape on page 169

3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Wis smert and brainy as could be. on page 44

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
Ma Maw thinks I'm gey brainy, like. Aw I'm needin is tae " on page 14

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d Sunny Baudelaire were richt brainy bairns, and they were gallus on page 1
sses that made him look richt brainy. Weel, he wis brainy. The Bau on page 3

3 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ers o Arts degree so he wis a brainy cheel.

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