Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bruck	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	13	0.5	1.5	198.7	116.2	0	0
Number of occurrences	42	1	1	20	20	0	0
Number of authors	20	1	1	10	8

Occurrences of bruck in Corpus

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Central

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
He pyntit wi his chin at the bruck on the braeside, noticin for
1 matches

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ds @Historic_Ally Dinna chuck bruck! (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ra and that's cheust a lock o bruck. on page 10
lt, weel, I nivver haard such bruck. on page 15
l me plans fur a run gaen tae bruck, on page 41
er bonny things were gaan tae bruck and great wis the final cost on page 57
the ben-end and piled aal the bruck in the shed. on page 58

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
yo, the skeul; roon this, the bruck byres, whar Astrid's blide ta on page 61
s an limb extenders an aa the bruck o bidan i'the varse, but sheu on page 90
ver hid is sheu's draan hid's bruck. On Mars sheu caad the shaeds on page 93
hung wi viddies, print-oots, bruck. He pits a simpler message ta on page 150

4 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
bruck, at the Hell's Half Acre on page 9

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
ye daean wi yir nose in that bruck? on page 89

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Yer head's all stuffed wae bruck on page 122

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Tae this awful bruck an gobbledegook. on page 135

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
? Aal this ‘You-Ken-Whar’ bruck – fur eleven years I hiv be
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
the bruck byres, whar Astrid’s blide
1 matches

Cowan, Fiona A Boreas domus mare amicus?, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney - Finstown, poetry
Nee more bruck fae the ebb
1 matches

Ljosland, Ragnhild New, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
wae me bruck
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
elenmoncrieff Yin is a lock o bruck! Three miles tae be buggert, (2020) twitter link
@northseaknitter Bruck not bruck (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Oh less, for siccan bruck as A'm spaekin!" on page 17
makkin a föl o me wi aa dis bruck du's spaekin!" on page 31
"A lock o bruck!" eried Alice, laek someen at on page 82
t soonds lack an aafil lock o bruck tu me." on page 106
"A lock o bruck!" said Alice in a lood voice. on page 123

5 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
thin sal be a budder or mak a bruck in aa my holy place. on page 63
nderstaand - no ta come wi a bruck o bens. on page 67
an life fir dem 'll geng in a bruck. Dey''ll mak on dat dey ken w on page 69
onkerry wi feytin an makkin a bruck o aathing. Iviry livin sowl ' on page 73
da Göd Man, dunna haep up a bruck o wirds - tinkin dat da mair on page 93
Also on pages 123
7 matches

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
edd Up an dey wir very little bruck ta fin. on page 8

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
age in, garbage out’ (or ‘bruck in, bruck oot’ as we micht
in, bruck oot’ as we micht say if we
act, da hael idee is a lock o bruck. Writers at wants ta record d
3 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
hing idder as bein smitten wi bruck when you hae a howe foo o bai
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
YoURe BrEaThInG iN aLl ThIs BrUcK aNd ItS pOiSoNiNg YoU wee (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
er o easterlies. What a lot o bruck!(2014) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
lerty, de new dunna chuck bruck https://t.co/vBWtwE8MZn(2020) search twitter