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Use in varieties of Scots

brow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 6 4.4 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences1612 3 0 0 0 1
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of brow in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
f hair awa frae her face; her brow was drint wi sweat. on page 3

1 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
classical English) Your bonie brow was brent (Colloquial Scots f on page 61
bonie...brow....Brent.. .But.. .brow...bel on page 62

4 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
New pluckit frae the fivert brow on page 43

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
" Coont Olaf said, his ane ee-brow gaun up, "And jist whit is ma on page 96
in?" Coont Olaf asked, his ee-brow gaun up. He leaned in taeward on page 107

2 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
wi the gowans on hir brow on page 27

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an wipin sweat fae McDade’s brow, flickin the perspiration aff
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in stane, vanishin behind the brow ay a lower hill.
ay walkers appear fae oer the brow ay a dip in the path kitted o
2 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
mans even named him ‘Grossa Brow’ and promised the man that
naged tae shout oot “GROSSA BROW!” and fired his rifle. The
e Berlin sayin that ‘Grossa Brow’ was still alive. Next Vull
3 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Gathered wi tha sweat oo brow, on page 32

1 matches

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