A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

breet Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11 0.5 52.8 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences341 33 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 1 5

Occurrences of breet in Corpus

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Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
peenge an pewl - ye couardie breet, ye! on page 45

1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Bit Sandy's oot 0't - lucky breet! on page 15

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
is as nesty an bluidthirsty a breet as Rob Roy iver wis. Gilderoy on page 51

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
ear tae the verra day. An the breet got nae mair nor he deserved.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
loon. “He’s a guid, quate breet. Nae mony shelts staun as sti
unty May’s pet name fur the breet. Sottars wis dubby, hairy, an
2 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Day turns oot a richt fule breet,
ae thing tae say, the days a breet.
nna deny it the day is jist a breet
st say nae mair day is jist a breet,
Eence mair I say the day is a breet.
5 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Need I say the day is a breet.
Rise in the mornin the days a breet,
ule an weet the day is jist a breet,
s day turns oot a richt cauld breet,
En a sup rain day cood be a breet,
10 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
bull wis a coorse, illnaturet breet an wad gore ye as quick as lu
him if ye like. He's a quate breet,' he telt them.
If loons cud dae thon tae the breet beasts, fit cud they dee tae
Daith tae feenish the coorse breet aff.
tae grip the ice an save the breet frae skytin. Minnie's da aine
7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ed ootside a howf; some nesty breet hid chored it frae his pooch;
1 matches

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
thirteen year auld when that breet Hitler stertit his nonsense a
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
a shargeret luikin scrat o a breet?” speired Snochrie.
forkietail, it WIS an awesome breet. It luikit like a
bonnie wee breet.
3 matches

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