Analysis of the basic and alternative word order patterns of spoken and written modern Breton confirms it as a consistent VSO (verb, subject, object) language, possessing the principal operator/operand features posited for such languages, rather than having predominantly SVO word order as some recent research has suggested. However, as most contemporary, younger speakers and writers of the language learn Breton as a second rather than first language, following acquisition of French, they will either consciously adopt the rules of the more conservative Celticist writers or follow largely francophone instincts in expressing themselves in Breton, with a rise in the frequency of SVO ordering and other potential morphosyntactic changes. (MSE)