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The word 'beekin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beekinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1105
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of beekin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
That bausy, beekin in the sun, on page 13

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
a place be the fire an stuid beekin thairsels. Ona suddenty, Beat
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ocht he wid find Wee Grumphie beekin his taes forenent his fire, b on page 1
The sun wis that beekin waarm, and the stane, that ha on page 51

2 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
in the beekin chaumer.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A shut ma een by tha beekin bleeze on page 19
An tha hail green warld's a beekin fire, on page 41
at ma beekin licht. on page 47
Aye, a beekin sun. on page 57

4 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
DUP hallions no hae done wi a beekin coal fire, like ony ither dai (2016) twitter link