A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brink Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.1 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences108 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of brink in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
irk-daurk alang the gowd-reid brink o ma veesion on page 88

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
is pu'in yersel back fae the brink? on page 18

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
and ah kin tell he's oan the brink ae dain a Michael Douglas fae on page 124

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
lattie chippy - at the verra brink ae the kent warld!". on page 1

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
ge can be brocht back fae the brink, but how best it can be duin.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
eid feels like ah’m oan the brink ae brain aneurysm and ma hert
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@JohnBishop100 Remember tae brink it up tae Scotland fir #edfes(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nikki n jason pit us ower the brink - aye lol (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
orway and tottered on death's brink. on page 40
nd pull me right back fae the brink. on page 63

2 matches

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