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Use in varieties of Scots

brakk Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0.5 19.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences161 13 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 1 3 2

Occurrences of brakk 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

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
s an pulin thaim sae sair she brakk the claes line. Meg's waashin on page 66

1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
l fowks were taul, 'Ye maunna brakk yer wird; fan ye sweir afore on page 12
n moch etten, an a thief mith brakk m an pinch it. Bit gaither in on page 14
An sorra, lik a swoord, will brakk yer hert an e hodden thochts on page 83
tchin an widna hae latten him brakk in. Haud yersel reddy, syne, on page 103

5 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
A'll brakk yer backs an makk ye coo'r. on page 15
Wull thocht aat it wid brakk. on page 24

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
'She'll bladd it or brakk,' her ma warned him.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
mmles o san, syne wyted fur a brakk in the traffic an crossed the
n the daunce till their flesh brakk free o the ledder whangs, an
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
It disna makk a soun tho, an brakk things,” quo Gurr, thochthf
tae brakk bit ay he held firm. Niver hi
them aa aboot his present at brakk time.
3 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
at's a boddamless hol, if you brakk da surface youll plump aa da on page 92

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Brakk da bried, a drap o brø, on page 14

1 matches

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