A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bett'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bettOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.6428
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 508.7 28 1

Occurrences of bett in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
He didna like Maisie. She bett her nails an pickit the bogie
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
th my teammate and friend Jim Bett today and show him round Corm (2022) twitter link
he bus wi his ‘friend’, Jim Bett fishing oot a lickin tae the (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e mickey. There wis this pub, Bett's Bar, in the West End o the on page 100

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
kle heich abane iz growed, wi bettér yins past ower. on page 12
r timattas - the' aye tasted bettér nor the yins ye bocht in t on page 16

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
There's nane ava can bettér pen. on page 31
An gie thaim bettér sicht. on page 44

2 matches

General Ulster

McMaster, Anne Yarns 3 - Tha Gift / At Sea / Hairst Light, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, poetry
a hae lairned tae houl on fur bettèr days.
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
us maks aa kines o seeck fowk bettèr on page 4
ot an clod ït awa. It's faur bettèr fer ye tae loass tha yin p on page 5
"Weel, A'm cumin tae mak hïm bettèr." ? Tha centurion saed, "L on page 9
he' axt Jesus for tae mak hir bettèr. He stud ower hir, an chac on page 76
he wud say: 'Tha oul wine ïs bettèr.' " on page 78
Also on pages 81, 87, 89, 98
28 matches

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