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The word 'buffet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buffetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of buffet in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
e then... Marlex? Heavy Metal Buffet? Da Lounge? Posers? Allofthea(2013)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an nae haud yer lugs amon the buffet. 'Al/ you can eat' is an offe on page 56

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ere nae enough tae ate aht e' buffet?(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
here watered doon pints and a buffet straight fae the shelfs ae Ic on page 165

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
chuils an that. Oniewey a big buffet lunch had been pit on in ane on page 71

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
NIGHT BIG GUY, EH? HA HA! THE BUFFET IS NOW OPEN GUYS AN GALS. Iâ€
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
He papped it on the buffet table. on page 8

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
then licks hur thin lips. The buffet is full o the usual selection on page 4
catches his eye. 'Is that the buffet open?" he says tae Cathy. on page 7

2 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
r took me tae her relativesÂ’ buffet. There was a huge table with (2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
They were drive-thru and buffet in yin
1 matches

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