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The word 'niffer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nifferOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 niffer in Corpus

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Shetland

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
If dat wir hit, why du de niffer tyeen whut I mean?
n you caa somewye a 'hol' yur niffer even bun?
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
coin richt intil't wi muckle niffer o sharn an perfume, her pulli
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Burns's wirds, shudder at the niffer.
ker haes less o a excuise tae niffer thir than a English spaeker h
2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
oot an yin o thaim begoud tae niffer wi the larry drivers. He cam
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Sae Joseph cam tae niffer, eed on page 18

1 matches

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