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The word 'brownie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brownieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brownie in Corpus

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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
ittie afore) til the tiny The Brownie of Bodsbeck or The Bogle. Mon on page 126

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
ittie afore) til the tiny The Brownie of Bodsbeck or The Bogle. Mon
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
irer collieshangie anent 'The Brownie of Bodsbeck'. The'r the blith on page 116

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
. Weel. A'm nae sayin A wis a Brownie yistreen, mine. ?? https://t.(2020)

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
nch an aw and that gat me nae brownie points - even though it took on page 29

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch
The brownie stood strecht an his vyce wis
At that the brownie skimmert an wis gaun,
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Burnin Whins, (Luath 2004) Central, poetry
fir yer Brownie o Blednoch written at Borgue.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
ae a ghaist, or a bogle, or a brownie, or a banshee, or a wraith, o on page 13

1 matches

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