A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brothers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.7 21.6 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences4442 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors14 12 1 1

Occurrences of brothers in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
brothers, cousins, husbands, sons. on page 7

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
in-building paws. Both Kenzie brothers hud endured the wrath ae Dona on page 49
from our school, the McKenzie brothers, Mr Stevenson and a Mr Finneg on page 55

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Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
or if oor brothers are gien us jip, on page 95

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
thum as a bunch ae long loast brothers. Although he wid oaften deny on page 98

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the same: he's got hunners ae brothers an sisters but he disnae talk on page 57
How come yi never see any yir brothers or sisters. Ah jist don't, he on page 68
e Kelly's da or any his other brothers or sisters cause they aw fell on page 169

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Donald never gat ower it. His brothers wur too fond o the drink tae on page 49

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
g men fae soothwest villages; brothers, cousins, husbands, sons. on page 69

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Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
nd p. It wis presentit at the Brothers in the Muse: Burns, Fergusson on page 46

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Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
k tae her da or any his other brothers or sisters cause they aw fell
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
uly in 1949, the furst o twin brothers, in the Cottage Hospital at N
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
d underestimated the Houlihan brothers’ robust approach) ah’d fl
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@DABArbuckle tweeted
eek by jowel with their white brothers. Its probably best jist tae f(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
eek by jowel with their white brothers. Its probably best jist tae f(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Grubb @MusselburghAth oor awe brothers at the end o the day m8 - al (2020) twitter link
moved on behalf oh ma fellow brothers - time sumbuddy took a stand (2020) twitter link
tronghold in oor household - brothers united! (2021) twitter link
@Brian_Pacey @stevie27boyo brothers united lol (2021) twitter link
n tae huv a wee swally wae ma brothers! (2021) twitter link
and 21 other occurrences.

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
His brothers wir aal shorn. on page 63

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Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
ss Fionnuala leuked efter her brothers for three hundert years at th
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