Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

beating	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	2.1	4.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	7	4	3	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	4	3

Occurrences of beating in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e approximately translated as Beating Heart.’ he sais, dain his b
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
much rain lately and the sun beating doon on us didnae bode well f
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
bductin Leda, The great wings beating still above the staggering gi
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Ah see he's brocht his 'bairn beating stick' wae him. Very Dickensi(2020) search twitter

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
fast. Ma haert’s sair kind, beating hard wie a dull ache.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Can you hear his beating drum, around Garthdee, Rosemo(2016) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t it is I can see yon English beating the farmers o'Crotia or the v(2018) search twitter