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Use in varieties of Scots

beetle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 3 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences62 2 0 1 0 1
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of beetle in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
think it wis the larva o some beetle or ither. It wis placed intae
1 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
k could be a clock or a black beetle
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
poored in beetle’s broth an daddylanglegs’
ferlies. There wis a manglit beetle, bit thon wis nae
2 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
clock = 'beetle' in StE on page 106

1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Aa pushd an beetle't tae a pulp on page 16

1 matches

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