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Use in varieties of Scots

beams Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences85 1 1 0 0 1
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of beams in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 85 - Roads, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
The sun's fierce beams bored throu on page 10

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
answer tae Tennent’s—and beams a big smile et me wae aa six
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
balconies, rest oan huge oak beams spannin the room, leavin a ve
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
turns intae the car park, the beams ay its heidlights cuttin thro
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
wfully decent of you’’ he beams. ‘’I don’t know how to
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
a besom richt unner the reef beams far Minnie an Isie war hidin.
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wae his glesses oan Under the beams, on page 20

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Gary, lowpin ower the wuiden beams wi their feet, grapplin alang
1 matches

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