A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

breks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 11.3 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2422 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors16 14 1 1

Occurrences of breks in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
When the lochan breks on page 8

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
They haed thair breks in the basement lounge o the on page 26

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Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
s feel the need o' their 'wee breks', it's no as if ony o' them s on page 17

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Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
She breks and enters somebdy's place. on page 34

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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the ba breks fae the midden on page 14

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Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
gin ye tak guid tent. Gin it breks again, I'll no can fettle it. on page 105

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
an's bin killt at the Pit; he breks it tae her wi a line ye wull on page 133

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
a wee thing fasht bi hou Hogg breks aff, an ir shuirlie better so on page 137
e psaum-buik is fund, aw hell breks lowse; the speirits rair an y on page 139
e gaes alang. Again, the tale breks aff, but the fack at we ir le on page 140

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
t muckle wecht that the brizz breks hydrogen doun intil atoms tha
s it heat, ice on its surface breks an shifts, an it gies aff a t
atween the mantle an the hert breks doun methane ice it lowses ca
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
At this pynt, the narrator breks a wee wi convention, bi strau
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
d len wird here an thare that breks the rule, eg "francheese, anc
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
wer on you, hen," an her face breks oot in this muckle smile like
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Holton, Brian Lallans 71 - O Niver ti Dree Corruption Mair, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e lines strecht an clean, the breks at the back fair full o green
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e first ae it’s many advert breks and what’s the openin yin t
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Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
As Aist-bye breks the licht ilk day,
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@iainnicol tweeted
@no1guncle Ma hert breks, thinkin on aw thae Lairds at(2020) search twitter

@pmcm1355 tweeted
majority where if wan o thum breks the rules they try tae chinge (2022) twitter link

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
edd-up afore sumbodie’s fit breks it in
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Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
brocht aboot. Oniebodie that breks yin o these commauns, even th on page 5

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