Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'buggery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

buggery	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	8
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	18.2	4	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
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 buggery 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.

Orkney

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

Mid Northern A

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

(South) East Central

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

Edinburgh

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

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

Glasgow

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 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

General Central

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

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

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