Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'breaking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

breaking	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.4	14	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	17.9	7	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	4
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of breaking in Corpus

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Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
he wis being tried for hoose-breaking and I was on the jury (he wis
1 matches

General Northern

@glenlivetloon tweeted
their constitution was ground breaking..pulling together people fae (2013)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@ColinBell2505 Youre breaking up I Cannae see it. ??(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
laneranger no - everybody is breaking the rules including royalty - (2020) twitter link
o actually cares - everyones breaking the rules - typical pish bbc (2020) twitter link
ux am beside myself with this breaking news ffs lol (2020) twitter link
east @BBCEastScot everyone is breaking the rules regardless - and y (2020) twitter link
in the real world - people r breaking the rules all the time and wi (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
unds messin wae ma buzz afore Breaking into Heaven kicks in.
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
he blood runs like the waters breaking on page 40

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ere tae put it... ?? Short o' breaking it up, and stickin' aw' the p (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
e no been able tae swim since breaking wrist 2 yrs ago and nerves in(2015)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
had no choice, unlike the law-breaking Tories. Johnson's apology not (2022) twitter link