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The word 'buns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bunsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82212
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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 84.3 6 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of buns in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
For fresh bakes, buns an' baps they're tops

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
For fresh bakes, buns an' baps they're tops
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Ma mither bocht three steekie buns for
etten oor steekie buns oo makkit ower the muir traik
2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
'Na, naethin adae wi buns, ye greedy wee bugger! 'Cream on page 58

1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
o buns and sugart fancies on page 129

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the table, beatin the currant buns at their grun in an unprecede
almed doon an the two currant buns ur walkin away. Joe seems tae
2 matches

General Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
Three o'clock. Yer hot cross buns ur in the oven on page 88

2 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
an auld stale buns or breid on page 38

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
sausage rolls an sugary fried buns hiv decidit tae play Cupid on
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
the stains wur turnin tae wee buns whin they lay on the flure, a on page 40

3 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Fur drinkin tea an eatin buns, on page 18

1 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Het Cross Buns on page 18

5 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Barnbrack buns n wheaten farrels or maybe a
1 matches

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