A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

beggars Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of beggars in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
id get awa wi hidin the facks beggars belief. Weel, mebbe. Her Defe on page 55

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
n he sits next tae me. Fur aw beggars cannae be choosers, he isnae on page 20

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Burns hissel in the ‘Jolly Beggars’ scrieves ‘wavering like
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
@RCunningham_MMM Aye, the beggars mantle ringed wi gowd right e (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
going?” she fuspered. “It beggars belief,” sighed the giraffe
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Dinna think that we are beggars,
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Beggars and thieves they called is, on page 22

1 matches

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