Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'becums'

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Use in varieties of Scots

becums	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.7	9	4
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	13.3	3	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	36.3	3	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
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)	36.3	2	1

Occurrences of becums in Corpus

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West Central

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

General 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

South East (Borders)

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

Synthetic (no region)

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