A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

beers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 5.1 3 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1310 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of beers in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
y. Before that, it wis stolen beers fae yir maws n das, nuhin maj on page 5
p the-gither, drunk our first beers the-gither n our first bottle on page 7

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s aboot it and git the fuckin beers in!!" on page 75
ab a seat lads, ah'1l git the beers in." on page 103
welcomin sight ae three cauld beers in tow. No that either ae the on page 104

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
cDade opens another couple ay beers wae his teeth, Miller Genuine
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
nny. Thoat ye were gettin the beers in?’
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Beers
ly cried in fur a couple a’ beers
w tae buy wis a six-pack a’ beers Ye could mibbe say a'm jeest
3 matches

Doric

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Och, me. A'm twa beers in oan a Friday nicht! https:(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
our mobility scooters & a few beers?(2016) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
a oot the nicht for twa-three beers an some daicent #UlsterScots (2015) twitter link