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The word 'bingo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bingoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.23916
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 4
WCE - West Central 36.8 8 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 bingo in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shae says, 'All see yu at the bingo oan Wednesday night. A'll nip on page 86

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
She gings tae the bingo and even the pub An rumour no on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
car boots; gaun te the Legion bingo..." Dottie liftit er eebroos. on page 19
s amused. Ilky ither day it's bingo, bools, cairds or knittin. Je on page 46
ay. "Wi'v bin playin bools an bingo." The laist thing at lassie n on page 47

3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ebsite far you can claim free bingo games. Fit’s the Doric fur b(2017)
Claim up to £50 of free bingo at https://t.co/rsYRy5pw1o Do(2018)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@fitabootit @DoricPhrases Fa? Bingo fae yon Banana Splits?(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
won twa thoosan pound at the bingo. The next day a mannie wis ch
e. If she’s nae awa tae the Bingo, she’s in a kirk at the mee
2 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
yer throat, so Jessie aff tae bingo, on wee ma cap, rating tae go(2016)
eeps telling me she's aff tae bingo but 1 nicht a wik has became (2016)
ow's at ye may ask? Well it's bingo day at Mecca fer the wife fit(2017)
auld stockings, Bert’s Mecca bingo card & an auld pair of ma lon(2017)
hain a nicht oot in the local bingo club! Wife wins a tenner, I'm(2018)
and 1 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
it. She wis only gaun tae the bingo an she nivver has ony luck. on page 26
vin when they interrupted her bingo game, but at least the polis on page 28
bbe she'd had nae luck at the bingo eftir aa. on page 29

5 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
vernacular o Ali Christie in Bingo: on page 123

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ocken which he yanked oot. “Bingo!” Nestled in the roots wis
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
bingo - 6 games r booked in at an (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
k and her mither gaed tae the bingo in a toun eicht mile awa. Mrs on page 6
s her mither had left fur the bingo, Matilda wid tottle doon tae on page 7
toun every efternoon tae play bingo. She doesnae ken ah come here on page 10
r motor fur anither session o bingo, Matilda set aff fur Fred's h on page 36
shop on her way hame fae the bingo. on page 49
Also on pages 204
8 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
he air. She resembles an auld bingo hall veteran. Habitually angr
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
s used to be booze, bowls and bingo. Since ah've gave up the bowl on page 1

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
DANNY BOY, FUCKIN SHOT MATE! BINGO!’ McDade shouts, approachin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
t? Taddies hed cafés and the bingo and did they no own the Marin
1 matches

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