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The word 'bugs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bugsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62213
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 58.1 1 1
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 bugs in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
like bugs... Geiger-coonter on page 10

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
lokkie flooer on account o da bugs dat mak it dir hom. http://t.(2014)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
helves o bottles, glaisses an bugs o tattie crisps an feelin het on page 16
ahin her in a flurry o skweel bugs an jaickets. on page 35
ks!" Susie dumped her shoppin bugs on the fleer an a Chinese cai on page 72

4 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
naewye, laden doon wi shoppin bugs. An syne, fit happent neest m on page 27
left ower fae dennertime; Tay bugs an tattie parins. on page 34

2 matches

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
broaden their resistance tae bugs, germs, an aa the ither menac
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Puck ma bugs, board 'at aeroplane on page 186
Dinna upset wir bed bugs on page 191

2 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
t hoor Suntie Klaas empty his bugs fer ye?(2015)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t fresh air in and the cast o'Bugs Life decide tae tack advantag(2018)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
e'll hae tae cope wi ticks an bugs,
ma lettuces are fu o bugs
But if ye want nae fleas or bugs
3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lasts! the fans thing really bugs me though as we seem to b an (2021) twitter link

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
An, aye, there's bugs an wires crossed, an hings ye on page 52

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
Catchin the same clarty bugs on page 22

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Forbye the aphids, ticks, an bugs, on page 62

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
t they kill/eat all the other bugs ye get in hooses I cannae sta(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Warwick, Matthew Tha Feardie Geng hae tae bide at hame, (Sensory Attachment Centre 2020) Ulster - Ballymena, weans
r toul thaim that wee smittal bugs cannae thole saip ava, heth t
1 matches

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