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Use in varieties of Scots

beards Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.6 3 0 23.2 0 4.4
Number of occurrences125 2 0 4 0 1
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of beards in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
rates with fearsome teeth and beards, Demons with fiery nostrils, on page 64

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ially when thiv got big bushy beards an hairy chests, ah think it' on page 95

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Tho nae haar beards the blae, on page 82

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wis weemen in disguise. No wi beards lik thon, they werena. Twinty
wis weemen in disguise. No wi beards lik thon, they werena. Twinty
2 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ye think yon loons wi hipster beards ah'll keek back on their pict(2017) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
@LeftPeggers Beards trimmed ina fits nae ti like(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Whit do you mak o beards? Dey ir aawye eenoo in aa sha
oomed. Dey combed dir hair an beards so nae flech or leftower maet
ted a variety o hairstyles an beards. Some o dem even bleached dir
weemin. Some even plaited dir beards. Meenie hed da sense no tae s
4 matches

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
ce to wipe the jizz aff their beards(2019) search twitter