A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'beating'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beatingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of beating in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Can you hear his beating drum, around Garthdee, Rosemo(2016)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
fast. Ma haert’s sair kind, beating hard wie a dull ache.
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t it is I can see yon English beating the farmers o'Crotia or the v(2018)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
much rain lately and the sun beating doon on us didnae bode well f
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
bductin Leda, The great wings beating still above the staggering gi
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e approximately translated as Beating Heart.’ he sais, dain his b
1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Ah see he's brocht his 'bairn beating stick' wae him. Very Dickensi(2020)