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The word 'fab'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fabOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81915
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 3
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 fab in Corpus

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Shetland

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

Mid Northern A

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

1 matches

General Northern

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

@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)
deen for a week bit no. Hae a fab time ma luv x(2011)
@debnicol had a fab wkend. Safe journey x(2011)

(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

General Central

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

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

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

South East (Borders)

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

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

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

South West (Galloway)

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

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

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