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The word 'braisse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
braisseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3102
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 braisse in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ae bed, feart tae luik in the braisse rods haudin the carpet flat t
te, the maid hid taen oot the braisse fur them aa tae polish, an re
Minnie wis timmerin up a wee braisse bell wi a cloot, an Isie wis
irkin on the letterin fur the braisse plaque that he'd nail on the
er foo tae clean the cutlery, braisse the ornaments, an polish the
9 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
i his skeely yuiss o a lourd, braisse bound cricket bat that split on page 23

1 matches

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