A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ffs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words49.1 79.8 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences152150 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 2

Occurrences of ffs in Corpus

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Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
arkyB Clicked naw by accident ffs.(2020) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
imetable every other Saturday ffs... ????. ????????????. ??????(2019) search twitter
FC Whit is it wae these games ffs! They're always playin most o(2020) search twitter
that’s whit We’ve goat left ffs! ????????????????. ??????(2020) search twitter
a twitter action oan Ma phone ffs!(2020) search twitter
@ClydeFC We wur winnin ffs! Some cunt takin the piss her(2019) search twitter
and 1 other occurrences.

@Chazzbat tweeted
sex?! The clue's in the name, FFS! ??(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@BoringOleFart FFS, jist spat ma tea aw doon ma (2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
were effin in their 30s/40s, ffs (2022) twitter link
@kelly_white_2 "FFS, I'm trying tae get ready tae (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@acatherwoodnews @maitlis ffs a thought his ear wis leaking (2020) twitter link
astro pitch wae a few puddles ffs lol (2021) twitter link
through 2 morro - n its off ffs lol - there at the lash imo (2020) twitter link
not up to you though is it - ffs! (2020) twitter link
ddies a liability - dump him ffs lol (2020) twitter link
and 134 other occurrences.

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
FFS! The quine said we wis anely (2018) search twitter

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
hat a bit too far there Roddy FFS Thatcher?(2021) search twitter