A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bricks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 10.3 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2420 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors14 11 3

Occurrences of bricks in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Wi bricks fir guts on page 14

1 matches

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
aw the plaister, scaffoldin, bricks an stour aboot the place, an on page 134

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'I saw a bonnie hoose o reid bricks, wi geraniums in the windaes on page 19

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ppy-toeing doon the path like bricks through gless. Offski again, on page 1

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
His hoose wis biggit oot o BRICKS. on page 44

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
bricks were auld and crummlin and ve on page 178

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
daurk or licht chocolate! The bricks were chocolate, and the cemen on page 15
and clockers and speeders and bricks and cement cam rainin doon on on page 173

2 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
s a waw. But it wis biggit wi bricks, no stanes. The waw wis nicht on page 60
aw that the cement atween the bricks wis auld and bruckle, sae he on page 61
auched and began tae pou mair bricks oot o the waw. When he'd made on page 63
awa tae himsel as he pit the bricks back in place. 'I can aye tas on page 72

4 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
st hoose in the hale row. The bricks had been weel dichtit, and th on page 19
lie wan next door tae it. The bricks were smitit wi soot and grime on page 20

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ged since the fifties are the bricks and mortar o the hooses. The on page 80

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
laes het an dry ower the oven bricks afore ye get founert wi the c
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
away tae open another bag o' bricks Bear... Catch ye soon mate... (2022) twitter link
Jane... I'm away tae fit mair bricks the 'gither... :) Enjoy your (2022) twitter link
got another couple o' bags o' bricks tae knock the 'gither, and th (2022) twitter link
That's another few bricks and pieces stuck tae each oth (2022) twitter link

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
tabbies in ashtrays thick as bricks, on page 33
an hame exists in mortar an bricks, on page 34

2 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
o the green atween the reid bricks on page 52

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@jamierodden hod? Ye laying bricks min Jimmer? I da ken at een, (2015) search twitter

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