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The word 'brummles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brummlesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
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 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brummles in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Her feathers war as black as brummles, her neb wi yalla’s a butte
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
i-wi Mashlum-bannocks an Moss-brummles. His name is Malkyne, an he b on page 92
"There naethin but moss-brummles leeft nou," said the Messenge on page 93
"Moss-brummles aan," the Keing rounit in a p on page 94
nae aat een: aat's fou o moss-brummles!" on page 99

5 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
ay wis switched thay wis like brummles. “It’ll be that bonny in
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Brummles! Affa fine in a crummle. http(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
an soort the brummles oot. on page 149

1 matches

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