A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

feres Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.9 26.2 1.5 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences5451 1 0 0 2 0
Number of authors7 4 1 2

Occurrences of feres in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
yer feres: on page 104

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
'Ma feres, ye hae awready heard aboot t on page 6

19 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ma feres are the binks, the kiosks on page 5
Uncarin if they house-feres hae or nane. on page 32
Tho she outleeved her feres tae slauchter led on page 34

3 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ert. Some wirds feel like old feres. Scots yins mair than maist.
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
‘My feres, ye will hae heard aaready ab
ay first. I dinna ’hink, my feres, that I s’ be wi ye for mon
‘Nou, my feres, what is the naitur o this li
hem ’at bides on it? Na, my feres, a thoosand times na! The gru
us by human beins. There, my feres, is the answer tae aa oor pro
27 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
t settin efter baisties? tint feres? bi'ts cantraips naitherback on page 3

1 matches

Southern

Purdie, David C. Lallans 74 - I Hae A Drame, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, poetry
I say til ye the day, ma feres,
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
unset lyke the pairtin o auld feres
1 matches

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