A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bleat Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of bleat in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ang in the lift, an a heather-bleat whurred its dounward, dartin on page 50
hinner-en when it gied a wee bleat, stauchert tae its feet, an s on page 57

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Thae sheep wha bleat the loudest i' the buchts on page 42

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
If that lambie winna bleat nae mair on page 30

1 matches

Haddow, Kris On Times Austere, (words.krishaddow.com 2012) Central, poetry
O Maisters! Wha bleat rhetoric
1 matches

Doric

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I unnerstaun it as the bleat o sheep (2020) twitter link