Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bessie	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	21.2	8.7	6	457.1	0	10.3	0
Number of occurrences	68	17	4	46	0	1	0
Number of authors	13	6	3	3		1

Occurrences of bessie in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t, in the spring o 1694, puir Bessie Beg lost her man. Lowsin his on page 63

4 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Bessie, my ain! - I dinna think it, on page 45

5 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Whan Bessie lats me ken she's fash't wi m on page 42

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
t Steamie. He kent his Auntie Bessie yaised the public washhous in on page 99

2 matches

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
They ca’ me Bessie an a’m fifteen. A’ve nae
uld get to see the future too Bessie. One day, all houses will hav
2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
I also loe the tune o Bonnie Bessie Logan but the ideas a bittie (2020) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ould tell Andrew his auntie Bessies cousins neighbours son(2020) search twitter

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'Bella', she thundert, in a bessie-like wey, that gart Andra lou on page 84

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
a bit o girse tae play on. An Bessie wi her club fittie an a', min on page 35

2 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
er there’s a Billy boy or a Bessie cat, ilka day she’ll daunde
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Maggie A'm Bessie o Gyre fae across the loch. on page 20
Tell me aal about him, Bessie o Gyre. on page 21
at pat me in this Hole. Come, Bessie, lay yir heed in me lap and l on page 22
And noo, here I am wae you, Bessie, in God's hoose - in Marwick on page 23

26 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Jane Gibbon tae set a poem o Bessie Skea's tae music tae weave th on page 34

3 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the sea an capered aboot an, Bessie, the sea sparkled like gless. on page 76
I heard the yells, Bessie, an kent me work wis complete on page 77

16 matches

Mainland, Marlene Home Truths, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Granny? Whar's Bessie geen?
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
id towartis the wa; sayin tae Bessie Bryden, James Walter Brydon�
1 matches