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The word 'bess'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.1365
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 393.2 30 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 bess in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
y ah’m remembering ma lovely Bess fa used tae think the North S(2018)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
ye winna believe ess - fan Bess wis jist gettin ower her pneu on page 35

2 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
King James: Guid Queen Bess isnae deid yett. Haud yer hor on page 12

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
tae the hous - an his sweet Bess - afore he got a droukin. Ha on page 48
, bien wee hous ready for his Bess afore the back-en - an flit on page 50
an a vyce cried for Adam Beg. Bess, sabbin her hert oot, clung t on page 52
Adam luke at Bess an she noddit. 'Aye, Tammas, on page 53
Adam never tuik his Bess tae the heather. For months e on page 54
Also on pages 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 70
30 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
'Fir he's bairnt wee Bess Paton! on page 11

2 matches

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