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The word 'baak'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
baakOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus45.21476
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 255.1 78 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 164.1 15 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) 1318.1 42 2
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 126.5 9 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of baak in Corpus

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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

Mid Northern A

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

Aberdeen

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

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

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

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

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

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
is wus tha sough 'at cum owre baak an forrit in tha apen discoor on page 2
rlan an wastren Scoatlan gaes baak tae afore the' taaked Inglish on page 6
owk mair nor thair taak) gaes baak til 16an40. Seein tha maist f on page 7
tha Scotch leid fun frae awa baak in pairts o Norlin Airlan an on page 11
rt an unnèr-docht leids as a baak-gaein swaatch o Euraip's cult on page 13
Also on pages 14
9 matches

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