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Use in varieties of Scots

fab Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 4.1 9 0 5.8 41.3 0
Number of occurrences198 6 0 1 4 0
Number of authors15 6 4 1 4

Occurrences of fab in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
weather's dope! The weather's fab! Yon ice cream van queue's ji on page 77

1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
maist like –Oor Wullie, or Fab Boab. Grown up, ye ken. Ah me
˜He’s Oor Wullie, na he’s Fab Bob’ debate. Anyways, he’
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
mans game. Aye we both had a fab time ?? ‘twas glorious x htt(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
e hae you back Hope you hae a fab interview. Hugggggggssss fae (2016) search twitter
am The group of folk dain the fab knitted tree decorations are (2018) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
issPotkin Hou dae ye luik say fab efter THREE BAIRNS! Ah hate y(2020) search twitter

@weenell3 tweeted
ulnewton3 Thank you all for a fab day ?????????????? and lovely (2022) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t, an Cora's meeved fae a pre-fab inte a muckle funcy hoose." M on page 60

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@sovereigndaisy tweeted
Get yersel up tae The Hill - fab museum(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
omplete and listening tae the fab @cerysmatthews on @BBC6Music (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
e us! Bit thanks, we'll hae a fab time ;-) xx(2013) search twitter
deen for a week bit no. Hae a fab time ma luv x(2011) search twitter
@debnicol had a fab wkend. Safe journey x(2011) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
tretch oot da spaegie after a fab night thanks to @AnneSavage. (2018) search twitter

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
a bottle o ginger wine #JRB #fab(2012) search twitter

@jamie_ginger tweeted
“Rosies are red, vilots are fab. I like the way you pack my k(2018) search twitter

@officialAliRed tweeted
A wee star at FAB ?? https://t.co/6IaHIdSDwD(2020) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
collab of my coronapoems and fab monographs from @adrianlamber(2020) search twitter