Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'breathes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

breathes	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.4	8	8
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	41.8	3	3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of breathes in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
whar the dream breathes in silk on page 7

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
weys says ah should take deep breathes . But ah never remember’’.
1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
spite. He closes hiz mooth an breathes through hiz nose.
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
in mind that leids leeves an breathes - that thay chenge - an sae on page 33

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
-independence muivement, that breathes a wee souch o relief at haein
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
the island breathes agane. on page 169

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The rain breathes saft as it straiks the airth. on page 19

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
'at Man breathes .
1 matches