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Use in varieties of Scots

fuck's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 5.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1211 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of fuck's in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Wit the fuck's this?' ah say tae Dolly. For on page 2
'Fuck's the matter?' on page 17

2 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Look! Who the fuck's that?' Finnegan shouts. on page 17

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ob hittin the mast, sunshine, Fuck's sake, the bottom licht'll be on page 1

5 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
hat bad. Maw's right. Who the fuck's gonnae ken if ah spell wrang' on page 7

2 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
---Fir fuck's sake, Mark.
1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@Sayers33 "Ally! Aw, fir fuck's sake!"(2021) search twitter