A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'beeg'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beegOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.7422
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 1441.7 41 1
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) 13.9 1 1
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 beeg in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n time till see id pop doon a beeg rabbit-holl under e hedge. on page 8
ANGE MARMALADE", but till her beeg disappointment id wis empty: on page 9
ME" bonnily printed on id in beeg letters. on page 12
lice, "an if id makes me grow beeg, A can reach e key; an if id on page 14
allons o tears,till air wis a beeg pool all roond her, aboot fou on page 16
Also on pages 23, 27, 32, 34, 38, 40, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 74, 78, 82, 87, 91, 104, 107, 109, 112, 116
41 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
beeg enow tae on page 70

1 matches

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