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The word 'betimes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
betimesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of betimes in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
panee pairty smiled an noddit betimes. Neist, Brian set doon his fi
heengefu, vengefu, maisterfu. Betimes quaet; betimes gurly. Aywyes
quaet; betimes gurly. Aywyes sleekit fin she
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
while. Betimes, Waggitie Will an Angus the A
betimes they didna. This year, a cout
2 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
we did betimes. Aye it'll cost some deal on page 26

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Lat's gang betimes tae the vineyards, on page 16

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
wee things ye see in the lift betimes. on page 47

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
fae senseless History - but betimes there was a live ane yet that on page 18

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e thrang, the teacher thocht. Betimes he was wammlin and wafflin on on page 37

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
en he cam hame empty haundit. Betimes he brocht in a rabbit we coul
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
an nicht an oot she’d gae, betimes wi ma mither tae tak chairge
y or ha’penny ablo the cup. Betimes there wis a cup but nae money
2 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
ace in the warld were happit. Betimes I wrote in Scots, maistlins i
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
gan fir a brek awa fae it aa, betimes jist fir the caroosin an that(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
l spïrit tae lea hïm alane. Betimes ït haed made hïm brek awa f on page 83

1 matches

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