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Use in varieties of Scots

brokken Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 0 0 99.4 52.3 0 0
Number of occurrences190 0 10 9 0 0
Number of authors7 4 3

Occurrences of brokken in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
laevan wan wife hert-brokken in Orkney. on page 5

1 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Forbye a brokken fence, or dyke tae mend. on page 39

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Oh, God, thoo're brokken me mither's plate! on page 5
Me Brokken Leg on page 24
Poor Gran wis brokken-herted and sheu blamed me, I on page 55
along the floorboards like a brokken wagon wheel. on page 74

5 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
and flattest pairt o aal the brokken isles o Orkney. Here, the sel
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
an crookit, like it haed been brokken a couple o times. This filloâ
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
first time in me life, I hiv brokken the ice on troughs – for ei
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
dan da rinkle o brokken gless, an dat med her tink at on page 37
ie scriechs, an mair soonds o brokken gless. "For sic a lock o cucu on page 38

3 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
wild baest. Jacob's haert wis brokken. Joseph wis dan selt tae an i on page 13
very sel - boady an sowl - brokken fir you. D6 dis as you mind o on page 143

2 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"It's just brokken my hert," Maggie Ann kerrion, on page 17
el up gently, "Shurly naethin brokken." on page 27

2 matches

Johnson, Laureen Moarnin Ida Kames, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
da brokken line ta Lerook
meets da brokken line ta Sullom Voe.
2 matches

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