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The word 'beers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4137
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of beers in Corpus

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General Northern

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

(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

Dundee

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

Glasgow

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

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

General Ulster

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