A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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baak Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words44.7 0 137.7 0 17.4 0 213
Number of occurrences1490 93 0 3 0 44
Number of authors7 2 1 3

Occurrences of baak 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.

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
dit nae tae wyte but tae come baak aifter. Things haedna gane as on page 77
ntit oot; an he gat his caird baak. on page 78
aboot richt. But cud we come baak tae the rale warl again?' on page 81
telling me ee've been brocht baak fae the deid?' on page 82
s telt; an th'inspector turns baak till his mobile phone: 'Oh, w on page 83

5 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
en the linth o the kwintra an baak.' on page 30

6 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
posh fur heis. Thi onley draa baak weis eit their weis nay coal on page 4
t up an polished, we wid heed baak doon tae thi grun tae hay a s on page 5
a metal weis jammt en 'o' thi baak o thi rock's. Thi cheyn weis on page 6
n thocht he wid get hee's ain baak on hee's granda so hee roart on page 10
, an he coodna get thi tiller baak throo thi crowd tae straachen on page 12
Also on pages 13, 18, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 47, 49, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65, 65, 67, 68, 69
78 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
There was a fremd kipple in e baak raw ahin Fergie; an ere was F on page 25

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ays he, ‘tho, es fyow month baak, it micht hae been better, gi
lly twise a wik – an winnin baak aifter a filie, fan she was g
or the place was mair or less baak as it haed been.
3 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
in. I write dis in wirds laek baak, baarn, taaties, faa - aa wi
example, an write wirds laek baak wi dooble AA whidder we say d
der sayin B-A-A-K as edder ‘baak’ or ‘bawk’, or H A E L
3 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hoo shae wus iver gan tae git baak oot agane. on page 10
e the wee dorr, sae shae went baak tae the tibble, half hopin sh on page 12
ee gowden key, whin shae went baak tae the tibble fur it, shae f on page 14
It wus the White Rabbit comin baak, pooerfu weel nigged oot, wi on page 18
" An shae tuk tae hir baiters baak tae the wee dorr; but the wee on page 20
Also on pages 21, 24, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 40, 42, 45, 52, 53, 56, 64, 75, 85, 86, 87, 92, 98, 99, 102, 103, 116, 117, 124
41 matches

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
tarted daein doughnuts at the baak o the yaird. The ensuing alte
know whether Maddalena did go baak hame tae Rome, nivver mine th
2 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
Awa baak ower sixty year ir mair, thau
1 matches

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