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The word 'bunkers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bunkersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 bunkers in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
tank traps, watch-too'ers, bunkers; da oorie on page 27

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
fowk start tae fill up their bunkers, fill up
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
me the map o the auld Fittie bunkers that are under the sheds as n(2016)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
sinks overloaded wae dishes, bunkers stained wae coffee, and what on page 118

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
out the panser, apenin aw the bunkers roun the waws o the caibin, k
ben its bunkers ti rademe the wadset on ma ho
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
you look closely you see auld bunkers and greens. #uselessFactsFaeD(2020)
uglas4Moray We’re all in our bunkers now. If yir a Tory, you wont (2020)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
y Living mag. The fresh white bunkers go hand in hand wae the stain
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hes ur dug oot tae empty coal bunkers an thon recycle bins lined up
1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
n anything else... and it had bunkers all the way around in the kit(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
doun owre the Bunkers Hill an owre the Snoot fit br
1 matches

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