A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'breaks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breaksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41814
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 40.2 8 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of breaks in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
with two eleven minute coffee breaks and one hour for lunch. The G
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
t just killed a dunlin and it breaks my peerie heart :((2013)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Save 15% off Short Breaks, Spa & Beauty booked before 2(2017)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Bidin awa: City Breaks on page 1

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
te. Course it hits the grund, breaks, staggers me. Bluebottle's go on page 1

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
funny how kelty aways get the breaks - never fails lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
ur bluid, an’ that puts the breaks oan the deeper levels o’ oo
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
weed that cushions its arse n breaks its faw. A see ma opportunity on page 15

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
n back tae back country songs breaks, an I leave ma four cans a' G on page 3

4 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
dead laid back ... long lunch breaks, siesta time, nippin in and o
chits and get on. As for tea breaks, forget it. You can go intae
2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Gaspin, ma heid breaks the surface again, the freezi
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
n or Portugal*) there were wi breaks ootside (nae roof) or parasol(2020)

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Whun tha brench breaks thon credel wull faa on page 28

1 matches

Dee Har Tha Broon Troot, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
As he breaks tha surface,
1 matches

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