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Use in varieties of Scots

buggery Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 5 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1210 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of buggery in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
as well as gettin bullied tae buggery, Cathy. Naw that ah knew whit on page 7

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
as well as gettin bullied tae buggery, Elsie. on page 15

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
aes off, she wis as skinny as buggery - juist like a bag o kinnlin on page 136

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
cam frae. Move fir the love o buggery, Ah cannae ... Aw, fir fu...' on page 17

1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah wrote him a letter, did he buggery.
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
w fine well drinkin masel tae buggery will ainlie make it worse.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s level it wid get ripped tae buggery.
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ed, Speed, Right, Paddle like buggery! Beth lead Marion doon bit Ma
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
e is swollen an it hurts like buggery. Ah've bin neckin Codeine lik(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Am Ah buggery! Ah'v bin a patient o Ivor's on page 6

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
groups. Keep hid comin an tae buggery wae the naysayers ?? (2021) twitter link