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The word 'baests'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
baestsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4138
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 3
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 baests in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
for herman the baests, on page 25

1 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Tendan the baests, coaxan the oats tae grow, on page 42

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
stery section. It taks sivven baests tae provide enough leather ta
1 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
laek baests ati'dir bizzie, on page 13

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Göd Man said, 'Noo we'll mak baests fir da laand. Some ta herd an on page 4
or wild baests ta budder you, on page 55
n whit dey're seekin. Even da baests 'll live in paece wi wan anid on page 63

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
lay dem in da laebrack: ocean baests on page 28

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Da grit baests mGv inta da waitin crö on page 62
idmost pechs, da sad een o da baests. on page 63
Ahint der fyaarmin, da dead baests on page 115

3 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ae sit atweesh the twa wappin baests, but there wes nae idder stei on page 99

1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
viruses, baests deid a langer while than on page 107

1 matches

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