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The word 'furr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
furrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 1
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 furr in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
r maestlins aye a rissie or a furr ida rodd whaarever shö wanti on page 84

1 matches

Graham, Laurence Flans Frae Da Haaf, (Shetland For Wirds 2000) Shetland, poetry
Ower aa at ploo dir lonlie furr
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ls, sim o them nae affa gweed furr the lan, the beasties, or the on page 84

3 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
its surrounnins; its thik furr, its braid, cleukit feit, its
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
whyt-waash aw owre hiz blak furr, an a stound in hiz riggin fu
e sunnschein strak het on hiz furr, saft grays kittilt hiz het b
2 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
packit Cain awa back til his furr, on page 72

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
fithers, the animals wi thir furr clingin tae thim, an aal dree on page 25
ess! Aw mae dear paas! Aw mae furr an whuskers! Shae'll git mae on page 33
ugs an the rof WuS ;patcht wi furr. It wus that big a hoose, tha on page 65

3 matches

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