A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

beist Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.1 1.6 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences62 1 0 0 0 3
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of beist in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
yer a beist o yersel on page 65

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
can cheinge yirsel intil onie beist ye fancy. I can credit yon as on page 42

1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
t her for a meenad lek a wild beist, began screaman "Off wi her h on page 77

1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Sae day yer beist, an whut we can. on page 23
beist tamed on page 44

3 matches

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