A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bressa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 0.5 0 0 52.3 0 0
Number of occurrences101 0 0 9 0 0
Number of authors5 1 4

Occurrences of bressa in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Boys o Bressa on page 35

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oose ipon her fokk's croft in Bressa. Bit da great sadness in dir on page 12

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
da Wart o Bressa on page 42

2 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: A Hamefarin hero, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
believe, dey’ve been in da Bressa schul an took twa boys younge
HMS Carysfort wis anchored in Bressa Soond. Da press gang aff her
2 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
'ad 'puss'. Shö wis boarn on Bressa i da haert o a paetstack. Her
a boannie nicht. Da lichts o Bressa wis mirlin on da Soond. Shö
her 'Tooooo' as she cam in da Bressa Soond. Da bairns wis on a amp
3 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
t Smootie da cat dat flit fae Bressa ta da toon!(2019) search twitter

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