A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bhOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bh in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
black keppit maws (common and bh gulls) followin a tractor. ht(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
urtle went on, "ee throw e-" "BH lobsters!" shouted e Gryphon, on page 96

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Bh? That's a bit hielan, is it n on page 96

1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
t13205 Hope all's well wi' ye BH.. Have a lovely Christmas, an (2022) twitter link
@braveheart13205 Afternoon BH.. A wee bit o' a breeze here (2022) twitter link
@braveheart13205 Afternoon BH.. If yer in the hoose, up tae (2022) twitter link
rt13205 Get the shopping done BH... Then hame, feet up, cuppa (2022) twitter link
@braveheart13205 Hi BH.. Aye, I bashed on tae get th (2023) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.