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The word 'brakdoon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brakdoonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
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 5.3 4 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 brakdoon in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
homewards - on the back o a brakdoon truck. on page 41

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
nd Islands Cooncil). A farrer brakdoon by CAS Wards (Census Area Sta
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
ly. There maun hae been a ... brakdoon in the schedule!' on page 9
in his broo. 'It's no a major brakdoon in oor transport schedule, th on page 10

2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
guage taewards English an the brakdoon o the language amang younger
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
rough Scottish Twitter whan a brakdoon o polls suggestit David Cobur
1 matches

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