A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

breith Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 16.4 0 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences3532 0 0 0 0 3
Number of authors12 11 1

Occurrences of breith in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
breith.' on page 30

1 matches

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
an smorin on her wirrit breith on page 6
Muithie rouk o breith, on page 55
breith o life on page 82

4 matches

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
tae first draa breith on page 32

1 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Ma breith left me acause o him. on page 10
an yer breith like the scent o aiples on page 16

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
cess wis pairt o their ivvery breith. Up here in Scotland, in this on page 41
c hooses, All no be haudin ma breith. on page 91

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Like the last breith on the field o Flodden on page 52
p daurk widden rot o winter's breith. on page 57
New uttered in a crisis o the breith on page 127
back! Gie the strugglin mair breith, a gift frae aw on page 130
And ma breith cloodin its sheen o starlit f on page 131

6 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
ailace. Nae myout o weir, nae breith o the snaw-sell rews, intert on page 1

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
t tae sit there and catch his breith. But his mind widnae let him. on page 91
ared aboot them, haudit their breith as Judge Strauss gaithered he on page 152

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
as lang as there's breith in me. on page 17
why waste your breith waementin? on page 18
Scant the breith that's left in me. on page 26
your deein breith she touched at last - on page 35

4 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
the breith o queens an angels, on page 77

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
es. Fae the stert o June no a breith o air had hirseled in yon dar on page 37

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
kenspeckles that wad tak the breith awa. Like the Yird, Mairs hae
n atmosphere that even haes a breith o wind til't. But Triton is b
2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Tammas begoud ti out-fuff hiz breith.
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ist eneuch scran tae keep the breith i’ wir bodies, and them ama
nd blaw awa the caff wi their breith, sin the ferm haed nae thrash
2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hew o Leonard's. She held hir breith. on page 15
the blind an teuk a deep breith as the sunlicht fluided the r on page 48
, its icy embrace sneddin hir breith as she immersed hir bodie an on page 50

3 matches

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