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 several ancient records this Bucky is not mentioned: there was a set called Buckaneers, who were pirates, that is to say sea robbers, and after a strict search for that set of sea robbers, they dispersed; what of them escaped justice in the southern climate, are said to have sheltered at or near Berwick upon Tweed After a smart battle, among themselves, they divided, and it is said, the party who gained this Bucky-battle, feared the English law to take place, set forward and took up their residence at this Bucky haven, so called, not only from the great quantity of buckies that are found in and about that place, but on account of the battle they had with their neighbours at Berwick, when they divided, which was then called bucking one another; but it is now ramed boxing or fighting. Another party of these Buckets fettled in another town northwards to Banff called Bucky, near the river Spey, which is a large sea-town; but among all the sea towns in Scotland, the fishers still retain a language-quite different from he people in the country, and they almost all miss the letter I, and use O instead thereof, which no country people do in Scotland but themselves. There is a corruption of speech in every county over all Britain and likewise they use different terms and ways of pronouncing words from others, even some in the south of Scotland can avidly be understood by those in the north, though