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The word 'effin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
effinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 effin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
gummy grin an addit, "It's an effin liberty at's fit it is. Ah he on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Tutorials ir effin borin on page 194

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
n efter a wee while he sterts effin an blindin, "I'll brak the ba on page 86

1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
he wee moose a dug’s abuse. Effin’
Right, she cawed him an effin’ B So he cawed her an effin
’ B So he cawed her an effin’ C Slap wis traded fur effi
’ C Slap wis traded fur effin’ slap Tae she went right ow
p Tae she went right ower the effin’ tap A’m jeest effin’ g
6 matches

@annieones tweeted
@Digbylj Whit the effin feck ùr yae sniffin? A hink (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
It’s no even eleven in the effin mornin.’ she sais, dain the
1 matches

General Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
day’s Scottish media – aw effin, blindin and bed-happin. Itâ€
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ool either. Some of them were effin in their 30s/40s, ffs (2022) twitter link
d she disnae want tae hiv tae effin feed em (2022) twitter link

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