Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bruces'

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Use in varieties of Scots

bruces	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.1	13	2
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	39.2	12	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 bruces in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
stle growan oot o the wall at Bruces Stores bit ither than that I on page 86

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
toon, deliverin milk fur the Bruces , comin hame on Sundays tae ge
's sake, kennin fo little the Bruces thocht o skiffies and kitchie
an weel-plenished. Nane o the Bruces iver stood at the back o a dy
ock's parks tae the east. The Bruces ained a peat cut ower at the
dealins wi yowes ava, fur the Bruces war dairy fairmers, nae mutto
12 matches