A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

banana Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.7 5.1 43.7 0 5.8 31 17.7
Number of occurrences4710 29 0 1 3 4
Number of authors20 6 9 1 1 3

Occurrences of banana 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.

Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
i his Chicken Maryland an his banana fritters he's got fae Lee's G on page 135
he rice wis dead mushy an the banana fritters wurnae even cooked r on page 148
bag ae prawn crackers an two banana fritters left. Naw, she said, on page 149
wan ae Chris tryin tae gie a banana tae a monkey through the bars on page 164

4 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
again). On the wiy, A grab a banana and a coffee and a big sortae
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@CraigSPAIN2 Toast and banana. What’s no tae like ????(2020) search twitter

@jamieonkeys tweeted
year. Queer as Folk, Cucumber/Banana and It’s a Sin are the only (2021) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
uble Deckers, HR Puffinstuff, Banana Splits and Swap Shop.(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
ah sailed up the Clyde oan a banana boat ya bampot! (2022) twitter link
ah sailed up the Clyde oan a banana boat hen! (2022) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e insteid o. Syne ere wis yon banana diet: naethin bit bananas fir on page 16

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
(I wint a banana) on page 151

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“Whyles it minds ye on a banana, an whyles it luiks like a pe
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
a game min, I've a hoor o' aw banana shot on me ken!(2015) search twitter
paper, mind n' keep thon wee banana tae yersel'.(2015) search twitter
@Beernutz76 fazziboy min? Yer banana's #fruit #ERICtion(2015) search twitter
@craigjohndavsn fit? Drap ma banana hammock fur thon teuchter mus(2016) search twitter
fit like bhoys? A'm mair o' a banana kind o' mannie, I wiz winderi(2015) search twitter
and 15 other occurrences.

@DoricPhrases tweeted
rizzled peanut butter infused banana encased in halemeal breid fur(2019) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
oricPhrases Fa? Bingo fae yon Banana Splits?(2019) search twitter
e here. Surprised I didni get banana for mi supper too ??(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
edref Haain a foreign apple n banana for ma denner feel affa noo(2020) search twitter

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
she could have been eating a banana... ????(2020) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
oo i've jist had banana loaf delivered ta ma door ...(2011) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
in, bit he'll aet a mashed up banana fae his granny." on page 43

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Made up a wird in Scots fir a banana(2020) search twitter
hing tae hae a Scots wird fir banana!(2020) search twitter
t the @scotslanguage wird fir banana is sklentiefruit. As in "Haw (2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
nny Malink Melodeon legs, big banana feet, went tae the picturs an on page 39

2 matches

Swannock Fulton, Rab ahm grinnin lik an eejit , (Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2005 ISBN: 978-0948877698) Ulster - Galway, poetry
n banana slices stewin on page 38

1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
ace @LADFLEG They'll nat be a banana WKd left on the the Antrim Ro(2019) search twitter

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