A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brekin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 2.7 0 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences75 0 0 0 0 2
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of brekin in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
r needed anyboady. Ma hert is brekin here." on page 84

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
is tae hae ony chance at aw o brekin oot frae the jyle that the es
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
at’s he’s fast approachin brekin point, tae. And by the wey he
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
oan Edinburgh’s maist back brekin chair. Surroonded by some ae
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
This is baith hert brekin an upliftin at the same time.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
d doon tae stap hir neck frae brekin. Shae quickly putt the bottle on page 34
ueals, an mair sounds o gless brekin. "Thur maun bae a wile lock o on page 38

2 matches

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