A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'beards'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beardsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of beards in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Whit do you mak o beards? Dey ir aawye eenoo in aa sha
oomed. Dey combed dir hair an beards so nae flech or leftower maet
ted a variety o hairstyles an beards. Some o dem even bleached dir
weemin. Some even plaited dir beards. Meenie hed da sense no tae s
4 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ye think yon loons wi hipster beards ah'll keek back on their pict(2017)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@LeftPeggers Beards trimmed ina fits nae ti like(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
rates with fearsome teeth and beards, Demons with fiery nostrils, on page 64

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ially when thiv got big bushy beards an hairy chests, ah think it' on page 95

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wis weemen in disguise. No wi beards lik thon, they werena. Twinty
wis weemen in disguise. No wi beards lik thon, they werena. Twinty
2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Tho nae haar beards the blae, on page 82

1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
ce to wipe the jizz aff their beards(2019)