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The word 'berk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
berkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.932
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 8.9 2 1
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) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of berk in Corpus

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General Northern

Strachan, Shane Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Tod’s Thoucht , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
tae berk at the meen - on page 79

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
tae berk at the meen - on page 19

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Ye can hear the dugs berk in the loans
1 matches

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