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The word 'beleve'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beleveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
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 beleve in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
l ti the rodd en. Bot A dinna beleve it’s as ill as ye
nou, an cuidna beleve it wesna a kinna fuppertie-ji
atioun o a computeir, wuid ye beleve. He is nerr as wyce
shae didna beleve the bittie anent the pownies.
4 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
, tho he wes weill reddies ti beleve it as he liggit baklins in hi
oued forrit fur hiz rowth. “Beleve me, ma ying frein, the’r na
2 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Allan thocht. Bit he cuidnae beleve his een when he turned the co
1 matches

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