A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ferret'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ferretOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
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
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 ferret in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wis makkin ready tae pit the ferret. Syne he'd rin roon tae tithe
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
YwliJMw dinnae ken of ane fur ferret.(2014)

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
o letters tae me, tae try tae ferret oot fit my religious inclinat on page 51

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
cht fer deen it! Heeds like a ferret doon a gutter! Blame yon Rabb(2020)

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
here. Thelonious is a fucking ferret, n he’s bonkers. Ah’ve no
ice meat cleaver, a funny wee ferret, a promise of porridge n a me
2 matches

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