A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

beamer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 4.5 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences119 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of beamer in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
uppers. 'How come ye've got a beamer, Harry?" she said as she pit on page 49
and comlie face took a richt beamer. Then, yince again she smiled on page 73

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
reet went an took an absolute beamer when she said it an then she on page 95
at ma back an ah took a pure beamer when ah seen him. Are you dae on page 112
he caught ma eye an ah took a beamer. She come up tae me at the en on page 113
nchtime. Charlene took a pure beamer. An whit aboot you Kirsty, he on page 128
ulous, she said, takin a pure beamer, Ah'm too auld fur aw that pa on page 169

6 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
shuid be jynin new words like beamer, riddie, schemie, multi, sito
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
id like she’s got a massive beamer. I finally got her tae bide o
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ol_baraniuk Aye, a riddy is a beamer, baith wirds Ah grew up yaisi(2020) search twitter