Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bidan	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.7	1	0	99.4	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	12	2	0	10	0	0	0
Number of authors	3	1		2

Occurrences of bidan 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.

Central

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
The Licht Aye-Bidan on page 67

2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
she'll skin me. Sheu hates me bidan oot. on page 39
Sheu's here and here sheu's bidan - luk, there's no more tae b on page 51
e last that I haard, they wir bidan at Jenny's. on page 79

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
o pittan up wirds, o bidan, belongan, an waantid on page 8
rue. No jeust me freends, but bidan somepiece I coud be .. "" "Be on page 66
b extenders an aa the bruck o bidan i'the varse, but sheu wis cur on page 90
r body, here, noo, shoudno be bidan in aald wirds, but hid is. Un on page 91
spaek aboot whither Astrid's bidan haem or no. But thay deu. on page 123

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
but bidan somepiece A coud be…”
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
Thir’s an aye-bidan fankle fir fock wirkan in min
1 matches