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The word 'becaas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
becaasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 2
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of becaas in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
bats aet cats?" for you see, becaas shö couldna answer ony o da on page 10
, an idder horreed things, aa becaas dey widna mind da simple rule on page 13
explenn mesel," said Alice, "becaas A'm no mesel, you see." on page 44
shö took him ta be a flunkey becaas he wis in uniform: idderwise, on page 56
lice said smertly: "but dat's becaas hit bides da sam year for sic on page 71
Also on pages 96, 98, 109
8 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
AE DA DUG’S MAET, hit said, BECAAS DIS POODER, IF AETEN, ’LL M
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
Becaas o this tha coarncrake haes le
1 matches

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