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The word 'buckets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bucketsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52518
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 buckets in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Breck - buckets at the door, sittan in the su on page 13

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Buckets fillan and wheel turnan on page 36

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a door ont. It could hud sax buckets and eence fulled aa Jessie hi
b, she soon hid the first sax buckets fulled and intae the dumb wai
er she wiz back fullin up the buckets again. This time fin she feen
r. Soon she’d the first sax buckets fulled. Nae lookin tae the le
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hree wikks an sma’er scaffie buckets voted bi Aberdeenshire Coonci(2019)

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
in white suits an wellies, wi buckets fu o wet plaster that wid tak
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
byle o tatties. Pluntit in o buckets. Fair chuffed wi masel. https(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@19Mcculley @rosebrook22 Aye. Buckets. Bucket day. Weegies ??(2020)
anTelfer744 ??. I do take the buckets oot ??(2020)
t. Christ she’s even put the buckets oot if I’ve had a hard day. (2020)
ook22 Bit like me putting the buckets oot ??(2020)

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
d, anxiously. She wis sweatin buckets.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
Andy. We used tae sit on wur buckets like Oor Wullie an’ swap Ch
ted tae be hum. So we got wur buckets; in ma case an upturned waste
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
bit thocht the pigs sent for buckets and milkit the kye weel eneuc
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ry sacks o fuel briquettes an buckets o watter, an wis gettin a fir
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oan aw the same, pure greetin buckets, till thir wis a big pool ae on page 17

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
leukit ahint the shop rubbage buckets, roond the biggin waa's an ei on page 22

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
yin giant coo will gie fifty buckets o milk a day" skirled Mr Kran on page 74

1 matches

Robertson, James Melt (Yin), (Kettillonia 2001) Central, poetry
Jaws muckle buckets fou o icy rains
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ent oan jist th same, greetin buckets o tears, until there was a mu on page 16

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
o buckets and spades and the wabbit tra on page 11

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
I lake’t the blue rimm’t buckets an’ the strainers mair, I t
1 matches

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