A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'broughty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
broughtyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 broughty in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ere wuid be a boat waitin aff Broughty Ferry tae pick up the laddies on page 32
ere regular look-outs doun at Broughty Ferry waitin tae see the retu on page 33
o level-crossin attendant at Broughty Ferry an went on tae live a g on page 43
be an outbrak o robberies in Broughty Ferry an neighbourin places i on page 104

4 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
* This bus gangs tae Broughty Ferry, and that yin gangs tae on page 28

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
oclaim whaur we wis gaun - “Broughty Ferry...Queensferry etc, etc.(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
? Gonnae take ma brood up tae Broughty Ferry soon! #visocchisbetterw(2016)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
ae tyme thare war a lassie in Broughty Ferry that spak aboot the Toe
1 matches

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