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Use in varieties of Scots

broonie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.8 28.3 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences5755 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of broonie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
. thinks he's fuckin mental,' Broonie shouts. on page 5
Shaun Brown n John McKenzie, Broonie n Wee Kenzie, they git called on page 7
'Aye so yi huv, Broonie!' on page 11
'Fuckin auld cunt, Broonie says. on page 13
start tae walk doon. Next is Broonie n Finnegan n last Addison, on on page 17
Also on pages 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60
49 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ts Dictionary) an the Grammar Broonie. This micht be termt a soople on page 56

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
? He sticks in a foot jist as Broonie’s aboot tae blooter it towa
on whit he wis seeing. It wis Broonie who screamed first and that s
2 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
? He sticks in a foot jist as Broonie’s aboot tae blooter it. The
oon whit he wis seein. It’s Broonie who screams first and that sn
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
a comic fir bairns cried 'Bad Broonie', by @ClashCityClarky: https: (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
For instance … the Broonie o Helliehowe tormented a fami
ither end o the isle when the Broonie popped his heid oot o a milk
2 matches

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