A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'brakkfast'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brakkfastOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brakkfast in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
hü most a dwaamed ower eftir brakkfast. on page 23
"Oh, an can du gie Floss her brakkfast whin shü turns up, shü's sh on page 48
Shü medd a scaar a brakkfast, bit just pickit at it hersel on page 52

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
bein the Sabbath, as seen as brakkfast wis ower, Granny Bruce as mat
'Minnie, yer brakkfast's on the table, her Aunt Jess
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e in the foreneen wytin fur a brakkfast o crumbs. Bit ae foreneen, Gr
smeethin doon her peenie. “Brakkfast time fur
2 matches

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