A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brisk Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.6 1.6 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences63 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of brisk in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
to tack with the odd brisk stagger on page 50

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
To keep them brisk till mornin. on page 113

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
further intae his charmingly brisk articulacy, rarely putting hi
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
efterneen or tak masel fer a brisk stroll up yon beach tae Asda.(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
nd teu in Simon Hall’s blog Brisk Northerly (tho wi a differ ir
1 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
dat day, dat year, hit wis a brisk wind fae da noardert, maybe n
1 matches

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