A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brochs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.6 0 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences53 0 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of brochs in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In eternity, crofts and brochs and tunnels unner caves. on page 11

1 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ragged heather, the collapsed brochs, the tuim ferm biggins, ye ge
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
Mair nor a dizzen brochs rise oot the earth tae gie wi
1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Moon brochs on page 112

1 matches

Shetland

Mainland, Jim Love (After Miroslav Holub), (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
A hunder brochs we didna big.
1 matches

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