Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

briks	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	9.5	0.5	44.8	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	31	1	30	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	5	1	4

Occurrences of briks in Corpus

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Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
torn a hole in the erse o ma briks.” The teacher gies him a se
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
He picked his briks aff the rickety cane cheer bi on page 29
balaclavas. Holey jerseys, an briks that hid obviously been bocht on page 30
he skinny airms, the cut-doon briks, the skint knees. "Brithers, on page 32

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Eric steed up an haaled up is briks. "Tak masel Ah'v nivver bin m on page 20
ort leggies. Fin Ah tak up is briks, Ah jist hack em aff bi the k on page 21
ae't shewn inte the erse o ma briks, en." on page 29
said, haalin up the leg o'is briks es they steed in the middle o on page 40
the young waiter wi the ticht briks. on page 45
Also on pages 54, 70, 73, 83
12 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
lookit like a male model: his briks war spray-pintit on an his fi on page 8
ower her bra an haaled up her briks. She adjustit her Disneyland on page 40
patch; he'd swappit his gweed briks fir jeans; an he wis absolute on page 47
"Aye aye, sulky briks!" Susie dumped her shoppin bu on page 72
ver fat - it wis jist aat ma briks war far ower ticht." on page 73
Also on pages 75, 76
7 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an a pair o hauf-mast joggin briks. on page 8
"Calm doon, fussy briks," teased Muggie, es wi gaed i on page 29
," said Ronnie, pullin oan is briks an forcin is feet inte's shee on page 38
eply. He dried is hans oan is briks an wis jist aboot te write do on page 42
adin ower the front o Elsie's briks an she's still claain it erse on page 45

5 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Ye've nae time tae patch i'briks on me on page 117
Change yer briks, gan tae i'flicks on page 137

2 matches

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pression Aye she wid weer the briks in that hoose ??(2020) search twitter