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The word 'beats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beatsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63227
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 9
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of beats in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me hert gied twa-three extra beats as the big man gripped me han on page 69

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
A wife aat beats ye wi thi pan, on page 13

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
nuforti1968 to tell us if iss beats i Byron Bakery.(2020)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Foo Water Closet, that beats me 'Cause ilka een wis dry ye on page 29

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
beats doon on their heids, empty on page 20

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Beats Balmedie ony day on page 110

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
singin. "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans". S
1 matches

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
Bit nihing beats the aits an' her's fit wye...
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
stopherHarv fit rare, nithin' beats a summer time sook o' ma Caul(2016)

@72redz1903 tweeted
z Keep yir croissants, nithin beats a rowie. Nivir eat them these (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
e4 @samcozzee @lewisferguson7 Beats a doze o fit I hae this morn.(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
19 im listenin tae sum raspin beats in grand theft auto anoo(2013)

@Franwella tweeted
‘is ane’s based on th lower beats o’ th Sp’y n tales o’ th f(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
the last 70 years and nothing beats it(2016)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
It beats my auntie Lizzie-o' Robert Ga on page 54

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Dull42Mike @Dull41Mike nothin beats a happy face with a football (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
nly, 'that the hert o a moose beats at the rate o six hunner and on page 224
cannae even hear the separate beats. It must soond jist like bizz on page 225

3 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
/Ma heart beats faster. Boom boom boom boom. on page 6

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
enry David Thoreu, Blake, the Beats. Strathbungo: French, German on page 3

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
A Scots hert beats in their wee poondin breests. on page 93

1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Tuim Tattie, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
back beats
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
r-to-ceiling window. Sunshine beats in from a hazy blue sky, but on page 14

1 matches

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Simmer Strand, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Heat beats oan the prom til the air on page 42

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Balfour - ma pulse beats again. on page 35

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ots sang pit tae modern dance beats as is heard on the Macpherson
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purdie, David C. Lallans 90 - Le Vin de Mon Pays, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Southern, poetry
That hoys ye braw an beats the lave on page 7

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
An' gaen mae beats some ould fashioned luk's. on page 8

1 matches

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