Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fancie	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.3	0.5	1.5	0	0	10.3	62
Number of occurrences	17	1	1	0	0	1	14
Number of authors	5	1	1			1	2

Occurrences of fancie in Corpus

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Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
? am up for it likes - still fancie a challenge likes lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
turned oot as mony ganzies wi fancie pattrins. It turnt oot te be

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
1940’s, fur ma yuise in ae fancie dress Ball it Roberton, A
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
udnae match thaim, wi aa hïs fancie claes! An ïf that ïs tha wy on page 7
thair? A man aa rigged oot In fancie claes? Na, tha yins ïn fanci on page 9
r ïn for bother, for yis big fancie monuments on tha graves o tha on page 90
ïn, yit Solomon, for aa hïs fancie claes, cudnae match thaim for on page 92
el-aff man that dresst up ïn fancie claes, an leeved iverie day � on page 98
Also on pages 104, 109
10 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
tha toon. Thair's a quare big fancie monument fur Elic and aa his on page 7
ocht, Fur aa his puir Jenny's fancie airs, the' didnae get hir och on page 11
"Yis dinnae fancie gan roon tae Le Wunters an ha on page 23
kin ye tae tak thaim oniewhar fancie." on page 24

4 matches