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The word 'broons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
broonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.92915
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 22.8 9 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 3
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of broons in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
'd aalways fancied joinan the Broons fur a spot o Sunday lunch, on page 57

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Yird hid nane o the greens an broons o the picters. The lift o Yir
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Like Oor Wullie or i' Broons on page 88

3 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
baws thÂ’n Crystal fae Bugsy Broons (ahem, appairintly) lately! #(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The Broons Annual - DC Thomson
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
at can read Oor Wullie an The Broons shuid pit a tick in the "Read
at can read Oor Wullie an The Broons haes the abeility tae write i
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
iversar o Oor Wullie's an The Broons' hamecomin tae the Sunday Pos
first appearance alang wi The Broons in 1936, it wis at a time whe
hers an aw, Oor Wullie an The Broons gied thaim thair first inlat
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
wisnae ony Oor Wullie or The Broons. Wis thare ony o us that misf
the Oor Wullie Annual an The Broons Annual taen year aboot in hel
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
. Efter aw, Oor Wullie an The Broons haes been gaun thair dingers
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ways got Oor Wullie (or the Broons, they cam’ oot alternate ye
wis ca’ed the Bairn, in the Broons. Ah laughed then, bit ah blam
ingwall, apart mebbe from The Broons an Oor Wullie, bit then thatâ
3 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
“Dae ye no read the Broons? They’ve goat a wee yin wi
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
s, blues, greens, yellaes and broons. on page 31

1 matches

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
ung, frae Burns sangs tae the Broons, "michty me!" and Stewart's h
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Oor Wullie (tho I prefer The Broons – ‘broun’ was the form
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
er fir Beano, Oor Wullie, The Broons...(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Rob Roy. Braveheart an The Broons, The Tartan Army, qualifyin, on page 77

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
or Mary, Bairn o Broons, on page 84

1 matches

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
Ah did get an invite tae they Broons’s Christmas Crackers play a
rful. Thur wis a smashin epic Broons poyum fae Kate which let a fe
2 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
a Scottish crafts seller with Broons items. The seller is loving B(2019)
Donaghadee ayeways has Broons or OorWullie annuals https://(2019)