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The word 'breiks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breiksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7155
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of breiks in Corpus

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General Northern

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

(South) East 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 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

Edinburgh

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

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
yi hear tell o Ragnar Hairie Breiks??' on page 14

5 matches

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