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The word 'bease'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beaseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus19.7632
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 376.6 60 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bease in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
and wantit tae tell the ither bease aboot it. They haed gree’d
sneddit. Afore lang the ither bease begoud arrivin and makkin the
nd nae flees. Alane amang the bease on the ferm he niver lauched.
raitur in Britain is free. As bease oo dree a life o dule and thi
Yet he haes owerance o aa the bease. He pits them tae wark, he gi
58 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
yow awa an aa, alang wi thaim bease.”
s laidit wi vittals for baith bease an fock an ither sic messages
fodder fur thair kye an ither bease, cuistin peats an wunnin eldi
3 matches

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