A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brooch Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 1.6 4.8 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences73 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of brooch in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
kie. The loch wis a skimmerin brooch, and the hills aw aboot were on page 2

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
string o beads an aye a bonny brooch. She wore scent tae, Mither s on page 120

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
each, beech, beseech, bleach, brooch, fleech, poach, pooch, preach
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Drumneachie Ferm, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Doric, poetry
The ferm wis a brooch, preened in the hairt o Birse
rdeenshire: ‘The ferm wis a brooch, preened in the hert o Brise.
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Beach keech fae the Brooch tae the Red Lichties? https:/(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
in even wore dem hingin fae a brooch wi idder peerie tools.
1 matches

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