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The word 'brack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5168
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 brack in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The day is a brack in the wather, a meenit o opp on page 95

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
Or Sheltie Prattle, o hert-brack. on page 35

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
brack da bröd fur dem ahint wis, on page 25
ethin in ye: afore school wid brack on page 88
your story, ta brack da bröd o life. on page 100
- lik bread ta brack - notes we play or sing, on page 108

4 matches

De Luca, Christine Love in a Caald Climate, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
ta brack da wind, nor
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
I caa micro-dialect. You can brack da wird ‘dialect’ doon as
1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Mony a hairt will brack in twa, on page 28

1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
the bracky-bree, wi its saut-brack and crackin tide.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Weel, brack its neck. on page 67
"No! Ye canna dae that! It'll brack her hert! on page 85

2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Brack it doon, tell is how it is. on page 47

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Delay will yet brack oor hopes aaricht. on page 24
Mary: You brack mine! on page 35

3 matches

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