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The word 'buckfast'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buckfastOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2147
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 31.1 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 buckfast in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
she says. 'I'm no keepin you. Buckfast king ae the Glen? Nothin but on page 1

3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t that Chris an Charlene took Buckfast tae drink in Coca Cola bottle on page 164
r bag wrapped roon a bottle a Buckfast an he asked if ah wantet a dr on page 169

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Her target wis the Buckfast trade, At her Co-op. on page 29
Buckfast's hardcore cognoscenti, Turnt on page 30
Frae the monks o Buckfast Abbey, on page 31
Thus ended then the 'Buckfast ban', on page 34

5 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
n the shop fur six bottles ae Buckfast: on page 13

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Doonin the Buckfast braw, the Tagger's Milk, on page 43

1 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
rMDempster Shoud hit no be "2 Buckfast 2 Furious"? =P(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
I am ae I'll-educatit schemey Buckfast swallaein SNP cult minion, na(2020)