A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bink Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 10.3 7.5 9.9 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences2920 5 1 0 0 3
Number of authors18 13 3 1 1

Occurrences of bink in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
, Sepo, wha wis sittin on the bink alangside o Precious, whusper on page 49

1 matches

Scott, Colin nobody remembers the birdman - Empty Nest, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
we funn the wasp-bink on page 171

1 matches

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
erian carsackie, doverin on a bink, guddled oot his harns, that on page 140

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
BINK SAYS BOO on page 13
I seen a couple o the "Bink Says Boo" bairns haudin their on page 16

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O railway bink or phone box or the warm on page 5

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
body hotterin like a waasp's bink, ready tae lowp, an its wee b on page 81

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
climmed doun fae the driver's bink and walked aheid twal yairds on page 18

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
I mak a bowster o the caller bink on page 10

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
shuid find a hame on the buik-bink o ony reader that likes tae s on page 132

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Weill skonsed in hiz favourit bink bi the chimla lug he didna wi
t wes set in a raw on a stane bink beikin i the sunn, grat
2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
cripple tailor wha sat on his bink aa day an shewed awa an shewe
. “This yin is jist like ma bink at hame,” he says. “I can
.” He sat doon on the stane bink an tuik oot his graith an beg
3 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
es baith the rig o the rottit bink an a stane page forby for the
kered tentily on the crummlin bink to licht her cigarette.
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
aisentit bi a tartan hap on a bink) an pyntin oot sichts on the
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
there wis a picter o him at a bink wi a crood o grinnin technici
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
soupit her stracht affen her bink, an doun amo the haep o rashe on page 74

2 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
on a bink, in a pairk,
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
mony bucketfaes o coal as the bink at the side o the fire could
twa lifts o coal tae full the bink for that day’s use.
2 matches

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The watter cool on the bink, on page 58

1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
wuz, strechtin hissel in the bink-bottom, blak on page 6
The bink an borras years awa, on page 33
The sweet-wat bink years loast on page 43

3 matches

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