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The word 'begen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
begenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of begen in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
wis gyaain ta happen nixt. Ta begen wi, shö tried on page 8
lum an offer him da croon. Ta begen wi, Willum wis moaderate. But on page 26
o an idea foo shö could even begen; an while shö wis glinderin on page 40
e at hit felt braaly uncan ta begen wi; but shö cam wint wi it i on page 55
"Ta begen wi," said da Cat, "a dug is n on page 65
Also on pages 70, 72, 85, 104, 120
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