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The word 'beep'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beepOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6226
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 30.9 12 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)

Occurrences of beep in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
RECORDIN ON BEEP
Recordin on beep, beep, beep.…….
Recording off beep, beep, beep.…….
3 matches

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ed to just wait for it to go 'beep'. But it's all lies. The Sovi on page 86
They waitit on the beep. The machine did naethin but on page 87

2 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep - tw on page 7

10 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Fuckin Beeeeeeeepp Beep!" on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ow breath an the intermittent beep fae the machine diplayin her
1 matches

General Central

@weenell3 tweeted
Drakeford have never heard a beep fae the new PM. Seems this ch (2022) twitter link