A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bamboo Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1.5 1.5 9.9 5.8 31 0
Number of occurrences93 1 1 1 3 0
Number of authors7 3 1 1 1 1

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.

Central

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

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

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

Doric

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

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

Southern

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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