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The word 'afa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
afaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7127
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 afa in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
tchin, an said, "Ye're lookin afa hingin-luggit the nicht, Baab on page 94

2 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
He’ll min’on Jock’s afa drouth
1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
cordion and Fiddle Clubs, and afa weel attendit.
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
said we'd trevel afa far on page 103
I mak ye simthin afa fine on page 114
An though i'holes wiz afa sma on page 139

3 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
We wrap up weel afa cauld within.
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
gonna change. Christie was an afa loon fur switchin aff tae moa(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
bud, got the bonjela on noo. Afa fine(2013)
@rossandrew_ afa gweed min(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
all the teams in the midlands afa - enjoy the season guys (2020) twitter link