A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aafu'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aafuOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3145
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 109.4 10 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 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 aafu in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
Maist aafu strick he wis, but pawky wi
1 matches

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
as it sers as a reminder o an aafu important lesson. As a quine
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
st, but the maist. Ay, it’s aafu, but it’s nae wird o a lee
t an healthy can sometimes be aafu quick tae judge, but obesity
dge, but obesity is something aafu personal, an aafu complex. Th
personal, an aafu complex. There’s nae juist
kagin, it wad nae dout mak an aafu difference.
6 matches

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
Out o an aafu wee village, cam an aafu big
wee village, cam an aafu big chairacter. At first glan
2 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
aa, that grown up folk say an aafu lot that they dinna mean.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
fae thair last trek. There an aafu hantle o fowk aroon.” He th
fae thair last trek. There an aafu hantle o fowk aroon.” He th
2 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
@bbcthesocial Aafu guid tae see the BBC pit oot (2018)