A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'brench'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brenchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6216
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 768.4 15 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of brench in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
t in me, he is ceest oot as a brench an is withert; an men gaither on page 90

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Yit ivery booin brench o the sally, on page 4

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
n ye cud tak doon thon muckle brench that’s athort tha wundae, i
wus tha braidth o a mon. Yin brench wus growein richt owre tha wu
them intae blocks. Tha muckle brench, but, wus hairder yit an the
ha hale tree. Haggin this yin brench aff is eneuch”.
a hunner rïngs oan this yin brench its lane!”
15 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Whun tha brench breaks thon credel wull faa on page 28

1 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Association(Bilfawst Brench); Bilfawst Burns Association, on page 43
n' Association (Norlin Airlan Brench) pits oan a wheen o' pipe ban on page 44

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
(Name, Consarn, Brench, Campus, Schuil)
1 matches

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