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The word 'brattle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brattleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11711
ORK - Orkney
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 26.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 8
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) 71.4 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brattle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
that cannibalism, ill-wull an brattle still smuchtered awa in the u
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
that they're aw scruntit and brattle as if they're dementit. Ah ge on page 16
'Brattle ma banes!' the parrot said, g on page 37
gain, saft and eldritch noo. 'Brattle ma banes,' it said. 'Brattle on page 41
sweeled roond the hall like a brattle o thunder. A gey wheen o bair on page 122

6 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
dinna help them nane? Dis the brattle atween the sheep an the flooe on page 29

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
brig jeests gaed wey, like a brattle o thunner! on page 25

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
see blackness fill the sky. A brattle of thunder, a flaff of lightn on page 3

1 matches

Aitchison, Craig Lallans 102 - Sea Room and Hunger Stanes, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
In the brattle an blatter, White Star on page 43

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
It hit the flair wi a michty brattle. Syne, sclimmin up on tae a c
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
airt side drap wi a stotterin brattle. Davie Hall, Wullie’s faith
1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 75 - The MacNificat, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
He has taen a brattle tae bauchle the schemes
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
the brattle an the dunt-dunt-duntin o the
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
a meenin aa 9 their ain, like brattle fur tha soon o thunner, Herri
1 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
thair mate, thur wus a quare brattle o thunner.
1 matches

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