Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bedd	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	17.3	0	78.1	0	23.2	0	0
Number of occurrences	56	0	52	0	4	0	0
Number of authors	3		2		1

Occurrences of bedd in Corpus

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Doric

Strachan, Shane The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e a cottage far a blind wifie bedd wi her cattie and her hen. on page 20

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
coral, far she bedd wi her sisters. 'Twis her fir on page 115
tae the sun. She kent gin she bedd in his warld she wid dee, sae on page 116

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Auntie Nell niver bedd lang enough tae takk her hat on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
he cardboard box o toys, that bedd in the neuk o the kitchie fle
fowk he kent fa spak like yon bedd inside the radio. He hid ay t
ny o them an, if so, far they bedd.
he mither coo’s bed. He’d bedd aside the calfie aa efternoon
the sweesh o the swallas that bedd aneth the byre’s eaves. The
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
anfaither, Auld Mattha Bruce, bedd yonner. Frae his dairy, Auld
ide far the neep-park cottars bedd. Like aa fermers, her faither
The cottars that bedd there eenoo war the McPhails,
far the Troot Wallie cottars bedd. Dod Mathieson an his wife Ma
at peace naewye. Bit fermers bedd an reeted, fur mebbe a twa, t
11 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Na, Bappy bedd wi his uncle an aunt, Kieran'
n bi the beach, an his mither bedd wi him, an she wis coorse as
appit on the door, tho ithers bedd awa, nae kennin richt fit tae
on professional business. He bedd in Sector Sax o Meikleburgh,
Mrs Ngobo bedd in the Hen-Hoose estate as we
7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
yles, she didna mind that she bedd in a zoo, she thocht she wis
the auld aik tree the hoolet bedd in, bit she wadna agree tae s
frien. She wis a wee quine fa bedd neist door, ah she hid a turn
tae show it tae wee Kevin fa bedd ower
ed till an innkeeper lat them bedd doon in a stable in a
25 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
he pat on da hidmist time he bedd wi her whin we gude ta Teneri on page 16
wis da last dey saa o him. He bedd hame an wrocht ipo da croft f on page 39
ast year wi da rugby team. He bedd wi Peter, my nephew at haes w on page 46
medd fur Setter whaar Maggie bedd wi her fokk. on page 71

4 matches