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Use in varieties of Scots

fowr Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 8 3.2 0 17.4 109.4 0
Number of occurrences3015 2 0 3 10 0
Number of authors10 4 2 1 3

Occurrences of fowr in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Micht it be that the fowr wuns on page 183
Fowr Highers on page 187

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Fowr-lettered filth pours frae the on page 32
The boy hud went AWOL at fowr o'clock on page 51
Durin eichty-fowr ma knees wir away, on page 76
Fir fowr or five year ah duin surface on page 82
We'd a fowr mile hike, it wisnae much fun on page 83
Also on pages 84, 140, 152
8 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue on page 59

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Fou blythe, the fowr-year-auld caas oot, on page 15
(or are thir fowr o ye noo? on page 16

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Coontin lood mair’s twenty-fowr guid paces.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
hat wan backfired tae. Ah wis fowr an ah proudly stood in the po
1 matches

Doric

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
It wis fowr o’clock. She wid be in the
1 matches

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
brought wi us an it wis only fowr o’clock.
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Höve caution tae da fowr erts, an scribe on page 25

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
He'd fowr young men ta crew wi him, on page 59

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
Dey got da fowr bairns tagidder an telt dem w
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
th. Let iz sei: that would b' fowr thoosint miles doon, Ah hink- on page 9
muckle pool aroond hur, aboot fowr inches deep an reachin hauf w on page 16
s Ah yist tae ken. Let's sei: fowr times five is twaal, an fowr on page 18
, wi a wee hoose in eet aboot fowr feet high. "Whaeever lives th on page 53
! Ee say th earth taks toonty-fowr hours tae turn roond oan eets on page 59

8 matches

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
a corrupt kynd o Inglish for fowr hunder year. Scots nou requir on page 34

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
et Februar, nynteen hunner-an-fowr-an-thritie, whan A begoud ma
1 matches

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