A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bracky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brackyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6123
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 bracky in Corpus

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General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
walks tae her aul freen, the bracky-bree, wi its saut-brack and c
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Yon bracky-bree o fykie haunds on page 2
Till e'en the bracky bree wis dicht asinder; on page 4
i the glent o the bracky-bree, awa on page 46
(babbin alang the bracky-bree) on page 86

4 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
bad luck stairtit ane day at Bracky Beach. The three Baudelaire b on page 2
wee craiturs that ye fund at Bracky Beach, and that he wis lookin on page 4
r awa alang the haary shore o Bracky Beach there wis a lang figure on page 5
it Mr. Poe wis daein there at Bracky Beach, when he should hae bee on page 7
, noo ~ were led awa frae the Bracky Beach and the lives they'd us on page 10
Also on pages 60
7 matches

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