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The word 'farm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
farmOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62817
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.9 15 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 farm in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e o. Aggie just worked on the farm all her life. on page 30

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
n, a spouse, a beloved pet or farm animal, in the twenty first c
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
the profits o the 10 MW wind farm at Spurness are ploughed back
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
son on 8th July. She left our farm on the first of June, to stay on page 77

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ensure Twa bags o the finest farm manure Will arrive the morn ( on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
about five miles away - on a farm. Ronnie recovert is sinses an on page 40

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
llum #Aberdeenshire #farming #farm #maclunkey https://t.co/9u71O(2019)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ecommend gan in tae Castleton farm shop near Fourdon for a braak(2019)

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
sons Roon on an Aberdeenshire Farm (1987) an The Turra Coo, (198 on page 5

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
stertit a translate o Animal Farm (I’m on Chapter 9 the nou)
1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
doon. There wis a picture o a farm on the back ah ma menu that w
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ractin masel by lookin at the farm at the back o the garden. 'He on page 14
d walkin through the derelict farm behind oor house at night. Th on page 32
rvously focus ma eyes oan the farm ah can see fae the garden. Ah on page 45

3 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
’t wanna work on Maggie’s farm no more’ is guid colloquial
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
gotten thegither at a lonely farm, cawed Logan Hoose, nae far f

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
shire an lodged at Meadowhead Farm north o Sorn wi a strong supp
As Cameron left Meadowhead farm the daughter o the hoose broc

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
tary platoon up tae the Steel farm, Nether Skellyhill abin the v
air, dragged him back tae the farm whaur he laughed as he shot o

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
pent the nicht at Meadow-heid farm by the water o Ayr. His suppo

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Steel frae Nether Skellyhill farm by Lesmahagow hud his brains
the day he gangs back tae his farm tae see his wife an bairn it
he troopers. They cam tae the farm an surprised David whae taen

@MartinBroon tweeted
penin wae awe the knocked aff farm equipment ??. ?????? https://(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
wi a lassie wha grew up on a farm. She telt me she uised tae ca(2020)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
elightful day out at Barnhill Farm ?? https://t.co/0Gt2piN1nq(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
oad at Sandyhills, really old farm on the site of which was a pr(2020)