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The word 'fifer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fiferOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 2
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 fifer in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Ah’m a Fifer, but Ah lived in Jamaica for
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ey8 A monster. Cannae scare a fifer tho ????(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
o wae the responses - only a fifer cood faw hook line n sinker f (2021) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
e, Gary Robertson an thi fleh Fifer Pete Cura aka Milton Balgoni. on page i

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
hot intellect post menopause Fifer babe that is @valmcdermid (#N(2020)
rimer but a Scots lawer an a Fifer forbye...(2020)
@GavNewlandsSNP Can ae bonnie fifer o independent mind nae interv(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Taks a lang spin tae sup wi a Fifer !! ( NO true at aw. Dae a git (2022) twitter link
onars @ScotsLeidAssoc Fae wan Fifer tae anither (residency status (2022) twitter link
saw it again. Wis sair fir a Fifer like me tae but ANITHER copy (2022) twitter link