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The word 'breetish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breetishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 2
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 breetish in Corpus

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Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
shö wis, da muckle flag a da Breetish navy as big as ony bed spread
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
the Breetish luve a guid queue on page 19
A Great Breetish Simmer on page 27

2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s look at the re-makkin o the Breetish airmy in 1881, the rise o Law on page 110

6 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
insteid o ‘Britain’ an ‘Breetish’, tae gie a wheen o the com
nglis an un-Inglis fowk o the Breetish Isles.
d been swallaed up wi the new Breetish Labour Pairty steidit in Lunn
ummin an hawin on the pairt o Breetish pairties that wis cauldrife o
4 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
r the Scots Pairlament allous Breetish, Earse, qualified Commonwealt
1 matches

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