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The word 'foties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fotiesOccurrences 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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 foties in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ye, an then they'll get their foties in the press an mebbe get on on page 90

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ied aboot losin a cuppla daft foties? That's nuhin.' on page 29

1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
oot yistirday Boab? Stick tae foties o the sunshine. Guid folk ur (2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
self ?? so here's a few mair foties. See ya next week x https://t (2022) twitter link
@DooRon31 These foties are awesome. Glad you all had (2022) twitter link
azing.... cannae wait for the foties ?? x (2022) twitter link