A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'beein'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beeinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 beein in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
so eis resulted en theis room beein birsulen hait, an at weis maj on page 6
id ower thi yeer's apairt fae beein a Pinter tae traid, weis thi on page 7
thi boat he wint, aw thi tyme beein watched be theis lad's on thi on page 26
eit dawn't on ma, eit he weis beein surcastik. Eis we weis debait on page 30
eink o, anneith thi sun. Aye, beein sober or eis tyme, hid nay ma on page 34
Also on pages 41, 47, 49, 56, 65, 67
11 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
young loon. Didni get in for beein colourblin. Ragin' nivver min(2019)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
wiz onythin tae dee with her beein a woman. If onythin, you hiv (2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@RyanMusselburgh awe beein well - like eersel al b ever (2021) twitter link