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The word 'bunk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bunkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72914
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 62.9 6 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.2 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 bunk in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
, or the next? In this peedie bunk, draeman O cities, draeman o on page 38
sks an leuks fae porthole tae bunk, fae the tide tae Darling's h on page 49
In her bunk wi Astrid lyan asleep, Darlin on page 90

3 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
m in twartree blankets fae me bunk, an we set a staemin mug a ta
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
at, "Hee's sorten een 'o' thi bunk bed's," aye blurtet oot, "Bun on page 26

3 matches

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
ins. They tak baith siller an bunk caird. Watergaw Village is a on page 37

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ice, turnin an makkin fir the bunk. on page 41
heard at he's weel up in the bunk an nivver bin mairret. Appair on page 75

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"He's expeckin's te bring wir bunk details an pey te register... on page 6
. Oh, ay, an myn an bring yer bunk details fir the Direct Debit. on page 11
erestit in wis clearin oot ma bunk accoont." on page 35

4 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
he ither side o toon, far the bunk was. There war twa tellers on on page 78
'Was you at the bunk this mornin, sir?' on page 79

5 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
in come mornin. Ye can hae my bunk, an the warst that'll happen on page 44

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ydigital Ye’ awa tae rob The Bunk o’ Broch ma loon?(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e pic. Will be asking fer yer bunk accoont number within 5 minut(2018)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
h, sits back doon oan his ain bunk, scrapes his hair wi his haun on page 1

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
So there I wis, lyin on a wee bunk, waitin for the love o ma lif on page 28
ae." Course I jist lay on the bunk an nivver said a word. I wis on page 29

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
lie bare-scuddie on my metal bunk on page 21

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Yin nicht asleep, up on the bunk on page 44

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
on, an twae bunk-bed. Nou, fur ae wheen yeir,
1 matches

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