A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

biro Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of biro in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
She draws a biro tat on wan roch glute on page 68

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
, like the funtain pen or the biro, is juist anither luim for th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
A signin in book wae a biro cellotaped tae a bit ay strin
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae, ye say?’ he drums his biro oan the clipboard.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
onnie, is palms soakin an the biro slippin throwe is fingirs es on page 42

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a bookie's biro sufficed. Ga on page 12

1 matches

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