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The word 'brownies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
browniesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brownies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ee fowk wis sittin wi her ... brownies, elves an faeries, nae muckle on page 84

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Lucy Lock Doon, (Greenock Telegraph 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
Nae school, dancing or Brownies
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
wi hings, remember, like the Brownies. Dinna clype an dinna face up
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
es and the friendly an helpfu brownies, the fairies were the maist c on page 29

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Aye. We made thon fir the Brownies, A think. Tablet. An less o t(2020)
wi it. Bit aye dressit up fir Brownies then Guides. An aye made a ne(2020)

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e, or thon's nae cocoa in yer brownies.(2020)
d! *offers Bee some chamomile brownies* sic as she has baked for Mha(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Like brownies an boggles caperin on page 18

1 matches

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