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Use in varieties of Scots

bunker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 9.8 1.5 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2319 1 2 0 0 1
Number of authors12 9 1 1 1

Occurrences of bunker in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
windae shines oot oan a coal bunker. Tom crosses the gairden heid on page 1

5 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
long as Ah've got coal in the bunker we'll burn it, that's whit Ah on page 5

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oll layin in disarray oan the bunker. Ah ken what yur hinkin, eh? on page 141

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ide ma time, hide in his coal bunker, ambush him in the street on page 126

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
We haed ti get intil Hitler's bunker somewey or ither, kis oor Int on page 65

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
bete the fyre frae the bress bunker at the chimla lug. Whyles Joh
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
aye steepin in a bowl on the bunker. I can mind the queues at the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
windae. He pit it doon on the bunker, turnt it ower tae see the it
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ah scoop the plates oaff the bunker and heid through tae the loun
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
call the kitchen worktop 'the bunker'.(2020) search twitter
se coal used tae be kept in a bunker in the scullery?!(2020) search twitter
3 We still ca the worktop the bunker. Its in the scullery which is(2020) search twitter
me hooses hud the actual coal bunker in the scullery under the 'wo(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
el, bit fit can ye dee wi the bunker on yer back," said Alice pati on page 89

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
aboot the amusement beach an bunker on page 9

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Gaerdeen Bunker on page 10

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
man wus sïttin beggin on tha bunker at tha side o tha róad. Whan on page 101

1 matches

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