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The word 'brood'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
broodOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62111
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 65.5 5 2
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brood 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.

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Here at ma desk A sit an brood,
tae his mate an aw her hungry brood.
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ocht here tae provide fir his brood. on page 17
ately trying tae preserve his brood, on page 19
ocht here tae provide fir his brood, on page 22
n tae whilk he wid retour tae brood owre human foibles. In additi on page 101

5 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
away tae some bloody work-shy brood ay reprobates. Happenin aw oe
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the warld, cluckin awa wi her brood o bonny bairns like a mither on page 73

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
ocht here tae provide fir his brood.
ocht here tae provide fir his brood,
rately tryin tae preserve his brood,
ocht here tae provide fir his brood,
4 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
is back intil his seemin deep brood, or, tae be mair exact, utter on page 134

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
in his wee tune whan a bonnie brood mare sprang oot o a thicket, on page 14

2 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
makin shuir yer wee brood aye hae ample,
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
l's there fur? Gonnae take ma brood up tae Broughty Ferry soon! #(2016)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
at the same time. A happy wee brood ye's made. Even as the last o on page 77

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
g body, gave her blood to her brood and died from the third. on page 41

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
innae lea oot tha pownies, an brood meers wi foals in han. on page 20

1 matches

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