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The word 'budder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
budderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.7477
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 273.2 47 7
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 budder in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
a daisy chain wid be wirt da budder o risin an pluckin da daisies on page 7
"Never you geng ta da budder o sayin it ony langer as yon, on page 92

3 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
lik wan anidder. Hit wis nae budder ta tell dem apart. Whan dey w on page 11
Efter a lok o budder da Hebrew fock finally wan aw on page 15
You manna tell lees ta bring budder on some-ean. on page 16
o it. He said it wis joost a budder tae him an wi dat he led it a on page 24
A Lok o Budder on page 27
Also on pages 55, 59, 61, 63, 71, 88, 91, 101, 109, 131, 139, 147, 153, 161, 173
27 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
im, "Wid da oonsocial oors no budder you?" on page 58
"We nivver budder wi dat noo," Margaret answere on page 63
er places, bit we're hedd nae budder here till noo.' on page 73
"Nae budder," her teacher dochter answere on page 76

4 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
sprit aboot da paet-banks nae budder. on page 31

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
cled dem laek yun. We needna budder tryin da rivlin on her." on page 35

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ble AA. Shui seems ta hae nae budder readin dis wirds oot wi her a
rony is at bairns wid hae nae budder wi ony o dis. Dey wid hae nae
wi ony o dis. Dey wid hae nae budder pronuncin T-O-C-H-T as ‘tow
a Laesk duis. Dey wid hae nae budder sayin B-A-A-K as edder ‘baa
4 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ws hiv used naethin idder. Da budder is we hae tae lie undergroond
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Hit’s nae budder, Birsie boy, bide du here!”
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
le. She’ll dance wi dee nae budder.”
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
I axed, tinkin aboot hoo much budder my ain bairns ir.
t when you’re a frog is nae budder!”
2 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
l shift dis feerie. Du needna budder wi dee honey an hill berries,
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Santy's reindeer'll hae nae budder wi yun peerie breeze. Long te(2013)

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