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The word 'bamboo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bambooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 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 bamboo 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
h'm fished fur cuithes wi the bamboo rod, Caught many a ling and r on page 71

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
girnin waand', usually a lang bamboo pole (although I mind me Uncl

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
he chest o draaers an the wee bamboo table, it hid been in the bar on page 29

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Koan, (sandyfleming.org 2005) Central - East Lothian, poetry
A wee five-inch bamboo Hemmi slide rule.
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 76 - The Gied Ower Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
that aa is bamboo shade, the laird will bow
1 matches

General Central

@rattlecans tweeted
ing fur ma friends tae eat... bamboo and... lols (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
reishil back slae throu the bamboo shaws.
Ye lampit by on bamboo stilts, be-in a horse, lyke.
i the bamboo theik o the boat caibin.
3 matches

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