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The word 'beukie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beukieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 beukie in Corpus

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Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
This beukie is dedicatit as mair than a m on page v
This beukie cried Yer Ain taks ye furth o on page ix
the name o the warld's first beukie on page 35
But, and mak a notie in that beukie o oors and yours and aw, on page 39

4 matches

General Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
means fowk will be giein the beukie thair wads in Scots an fullin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
helf, tho, A spied a slim wee beukie aside it: it wis Arthur Waley
an befaa ye, an ye lift a wee beukie aff a library shelf?
2 matches

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