A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fyr Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.5 16.4 6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences3732 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of fyr in Corpus

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Central

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
€™ll no stairt mine like yon, fyr it’s a true tale an A’ll
ennet wis kent aboot the toon fyr her shairp mooth an her shair
irp mooth an her shairp mind, fyr she wis a clevyr lassie, aye
her numbers. Jennet wis kent fyr wondrin aboot the hills an gl
Jennet pyt a portion oot fyr the Guid Folk an kept some a
32 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
t fit we did, iveree tyme Jim fyr't up thi Trust tae geang, Bag on page 11
So he loaded abudee aboord an fyr't er up an steem't oot o thi on page 12
e run jist fyne eence she wis fyr't up an ther wis pluntee room on page 50

4 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
da fyr wis lowin on page 17

1 matches

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