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The word 'buggy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buggyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 buggy in Corpus

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General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
fae raves, heidy wikkends, buggy flares, on page 34

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
s fae Turra tyres, so fyles e buggy wiz gettin its new beets fitt(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
two wee twin boys in a double buggy an the two ae them wur comin on page 58

1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ her cronies, in ma McLaren buggy wi’ a placard, n aebody sho
cs masel’, even if ah wis a buggy protester. Bit ye cannae igno
2 matches

General Central

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
A bairn, cosy in a buggy, wee heid cowped owre in slee on page 56

1 matches

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