A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

breests Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of breests in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
d nakit fear in oor weans wee breests on page 23
rt beats in their wee poondin breests. on page 93

2 matches

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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fir sustinance fae ma swallen breests. on page 67
ff!" peched Beldie, er muckle breests strainin against a Fair-Isle on page 69
, lang legs an gravity defyin breests stared up fae ilky page. on page 81

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fae er face te the swall o er breests, Ah'd aye bi sure 0a saft enu on page 41

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