A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bulbs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 3 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences83 2 1 2 0 0
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of bulbs in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'Hae they got bulbs?' Scratchy said. on page 1

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
e could chainge aa they licht bulbs, on page 143

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
nae lang plunted her hyacinth bulbs in the chuntie, wi were makin on page 76

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
t cars lay like smashed licht bulbs. Skyscrapers stude as hale as
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
Steam in the haet o the piggy bulbs. Milk. Mithers. Atrocious waa
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
nd being telt dat folk ate da bulbs in ancient times but a botani(2019) search twitter
s lik da seasons r turnin. Da bulbs pokin up ferder and I saw a h(2016) search twitter