A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

becums Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2 0 0 0 31 8.9
Number of occurrences94 0 0 0 3 2
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of becums in Corpus

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Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
tae a commercial ventur, whit becums 'a share in a jint stock cump on page 59

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
shuits John, uisin a line at becums a refrain: Ha, ha, ha, ha poo on page 139
i the kirk (whaur ither?), he becums sair browdent on Sally. At th on page 140

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
’er, efter monie fechts, he becums an auld mannie, stent til’s
1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
Kirk Brae becums Church Hill, an the Sauchiebr
gaun on. Sauchiehauch Street becums Sauchieha’ Street an syne S
Philiphaw. The surname Waugh becums pronounced Waw an Loch Mentei
3 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
eed, yit whan ït growes, ït becums a big biish an then a tree, s on page 9

2 matches

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