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The word 'brute'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bruteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82522
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 2
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 4
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 brute in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
rm strae, for comfort tae the brute. on page 77

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And I clung tae me rod as the brute start tae run. on page 71

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@helenmoncrieff Aye, a brute o a ting! This eens no foond (2020)

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
o dir enemies, a graet muckle brute o a man caad Goliath, said da on page 23

1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ohn looked lik a gret glaikit brute. But dat didna maeter tae him
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ease on the binder, fool orra brute o thing that it wis, fur naeb
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
nd first thocht wis...."dirty brute" ??(2020)

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
t up and it was quite a heavy brute a head a smile on ma face thi
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
intil swoon by the people’s brute.
1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
himself doon affae his great brute o a horse an awa wi’t in am
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
don, an he wis a great muckle brute o a loon, wi a big heid an st on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
blustery North win is jist a brute,
Nae sign o Winter bein a brute,
2 matches

Bundy Broch The Doric Min, (YouTube 2020) Doric - Brouch, poetry
shious man, he wiz a strushel brute
1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
id been the first tae see the brute in the flesh as it were, thro
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
It's a fool raa brute o a morning(2020)
Aye ats turned oot a fool brute o a nicht(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
ow are 'we gonnae malkie this brute?" " on page 13
aff its back and dragged the brute doon tae his ship. Wi the buh on page 33

2 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
sport fur revengeance. Than a brute wes pit about at
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
aye, ca me an unfeelin brute! -
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 58 - twa poems bi George Hardie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Hamilton, poetry
a fell dishonest brute but, on page 41

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Raisin’ Scots tae mair than brute,
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ar talkin tae some bloody big brute ay a fella, bletherin away. A
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
An ugly brute as black as sable on page 42

1 matches

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