A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'beginning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beginningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of beginning in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hink aboot hame and the crops beginning tae ripen in the fields but t
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ve nae Doric words or phrases beginning wi X in our A-Z – onybody ke(2014)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
r a stormy, cold spell at the beginning of May. Normal, not disappoin (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern B

Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
Am beginning tae winder if a could keep th
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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
fields of enquiry ... is only beginning to be unearthed in Scotland a on page 125

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
fields of enquiry … is only beginning to be unearthed in Scotland a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
"Let's go back to the beginning again" said the machine in a
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
but a state o suffering frae beginning to end; an really I can hardl
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West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
Noo she’s even beginning tae catch up we ma. I really
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e snaw aff a dyke an fowk are beginning tae get fou an juist aroun tw on page 72

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Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
before scramblin’ away and beginning tae unbuckle his belt. Ah’v
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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ld you care _ to start at the beginning? Or shall I give my account o on page 52

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
that we find no vestige of a beginning, - no prospect of an end.”
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Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ded tae dee sae, nae frae the beginning, but frae far we are noo. The
far we are noo. The end o the beginning.
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@jax6754 tweeted
start o a new week and a new beginning! Hae a guid yin peeps! Nicht (2015)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
when language was life beginning: on page 85

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General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
enagers in loyalist KFCs. I'm beginning to think he's nat a loyalist (2019)