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The word 'bean'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.84521
ORK - Orkney 129.2 13 5
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21.2 16 3
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 bean in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
ower the tap whin the fields bean rowt," he gaed on. on page 20

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
At the bean tins, breid wrappers and jam on page 16
Nut cutlets and casseroled bean sprouts are aal that's gaan d on page 31
d binnack and a foosty runner bean. on page 56

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
cheussan, the hunder o year o bean a piece at fock fae grander p on page 123

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
seem the least bit pit oot at bean cheust aboot knocked tae the
tae loss wur heids. Folk are bean doonright careless, oot on th
2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
sh – aa ye write chances at bean raed as bean a commentary on
raed as bean a commentary on the language,
n mell dialects ithoot faer o bean inaathentic, fir yir settan t
un, no a prediction!) Steid o bean the primary focus, the langua
4 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
m wad mebbe staek a claem tae bean a leid an aa. So whan Creativ
1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
till gey busy, socialisan and bean industrious in a more relaxed

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
stangin mi face, a birlin bean-bag spret oppen on page 27

1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Sweet tattie, lentil and bean stew fur da tea. #Nyummy #Veg (2020) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
il o ee till sit doon withoot bean invited," sade e March Hare. on page 64
n off intill a doze; boot, on bean pinched by e Hatter, id woke on page 72

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
mare. He got taiglet up amang bean bags an girds an gey near
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e Pend Ellon fur a richt guid bean burger, affa fine an tasty ch(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
big bears and bean chokes, on page 11
this string o wee coffee bean trivias. on page 32

2 matches

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
wiz only an teem upside' doon bean tin. The reason I'm tellin ye
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
lish crack wi words like 'old bean', 'up hill down dale', 'chums
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@dr_cheeky Mince,bean and tattie pie ??. There’s n(2020)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
nd me askin, is there a baked bean on the fronty yer shirt?' on page 138

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ry sir it wis me ah had mixed bean salad fur malunch again. on page 89
ee pal Jenny Lee (who's lik a bean pole) got a photie took 1n oo on page 169

2 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
til the year he brocht roon a bean bag… aye that wis the kin o
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
the oo wis selt ... fermentit bean curd, dried fruits, sesame se
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
Queen o the Bean on page 38

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
en Jock brocht oot wan tottie bean, on page 15
Jock wheechled up the michty bean. on page 16
'Awa and climb this radgie bean.' on page 17
d mair he sclimmed the michty bean, on page 20

9 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
than ony ither wis the cacao bean. But they couldnae get it. A on page 80

4 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
he swallaed a teuchit daud o bean. "But oor maw and da never ev on page 15

1 matches

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