A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

breiks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.2 4.8 1.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of breiks in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
He's as ticht as Hinnerson's breiks, an grippie for the siller. F on page 45
et! Weill dae A mind o't. Nae breiks, sark nor shuin haed he, juis on page 46
e uise for ti mak a jaiket an breiks wi his wee whuttil. Tell him, on page 47
blue claith, a sark, socks an breiks. He's sair wantin sum guid cl on page 48

4 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
ns, an the auld broun taurrie-breiks, arrit wi a culmas, firstlins on page 3

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
arrant hair and cape and knee-breiks, on page 98

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Mirren poued doun the raploch breiks at
wi marone sports breiks crowled out frae unner the pl
Tornes. A rek at the taurrie breiks dinna ken Ebenezer weill eneu
3 matches

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ns o Scots in kilts an tartan breiks are fun in monie librars in G
1 matches

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