Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'braken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

braken	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	8
ORK - Orkney	19.9	2	2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	37.2	6	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	7.9	6	3
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 braken in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
tae see if I could prise the braken bits aap, tae let me ken hoo on page 20

1 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
forby. The log wid hae tae be braken ap at the banks an teen heem
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Sae I come greetin ower your braken corp on page 39

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n wis haurd gaun ower terrain braken up be meltwatter burns in dee
landscape wis that complex an braken up that it micht as weill bee
car that the jooglin hadna braken nae seals or shooglet oot the
car that the jooglin hadna braken nae seals or shooglet oot the
ile tried tae stop thaim bein braken up. “Dinna do that! We can
6 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
No while the gowd is braken up, on page 40

1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
Magnus, an aw the tension wis braken as we stairtit tae lauch. 'It on page 57
arnage on the ship's flair - braken pieces o men liggin hereawa-t on page 59

3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
muckle jeest, an it micht bi braken tae. Mind he'll bi a guid wei on page 20

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
the auld braken mill an the auld braken bield
mill an the auld braken bields,
2 matches