A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

breaker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.6 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences87 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of breaker in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
SNAW-BREAKER on page 65

3 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e him and Craig loast the tie breaker. And ah dinnae want any troub on page 73
"The fuckin tie breaker question wis: 'What caird gam on page 74

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e jaicket oot actin as a wind breaker, leavin ma other haun free ta
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
dinburghLive_ aye the circuit breaker is on its way - o happy days (2020) twitter link

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
f the big wean. The poem Snaw-breaker is like a metaphor for the gr(2020) search twitter