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The word 'begs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
begsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41111
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of begs in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ng pits her back tae space an begs the coont tae come oot right. on page 156

1 matches

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
thi dark's a blip an thi day begs on page 18

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ask for a gless o watter. It begs the question, if he wis so fl
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ole @mart__land @ScottBurns75 Begs the question - fit wis so mu (2022) twitter link

West Central

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
threit tae the seistem. This begs the question o hoo we jouk de
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
™Naecunt, honest, Aldo!’’ begs Craigy.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
throw them, an it sits up an begs fir its deenner, an aw soarts on page 23

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
So, no fur the first time, it begs the question: Whit’s the ex
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
She begs o me - 'pray, dinnae fret!, on page 9

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
sair fecht. Sae the quastion begs itsel: whit for suld onyane b
1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
long as it only contains blue begs. We're nat animals, I'll have(2019)