A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bei'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.6555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 617.7 51 1
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 bei in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
r stressed bî, bÄ«, by, bij, bei, and da waik or unstressed bÄ on page 31

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Bei der Schiffslaterne kargem Sch on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
yer bei shehp cells o thoecht on page 65

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
weird; at the tyme micht naw bei sae fer aff n’, whan, juidg
il on the Internet; it ‘ull bei the duin thing tae speak i Sc
tandart English: an it ‘ull bei auldfarran an oot o stap no t
, an republicanism cuid juist bei roond the nixt corner, fur aa
m juist gey shuire at hei wud bei maist approachable, gin onie
51 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
frae the Chinese of Bei Dao throy Bonnie on page 9

1 matches

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