A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'eff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
effOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2145
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 31.1 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of eff in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
niver pet ma aff a wis shoor eff a perseveert anuff eit sum da on page 1
oda heen yer heed nocket aff, eff ye hid poppet up a curn meene on page 17

4 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@watterloony Eff sake. I wint for a shite ??(2020)
laforbes32 Folk like that can eff right off. I'm jist ower 3 st(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h heard yi, she said, Yi said EFF OFF. Ah never ah said FLICK O on page 19
e jist tells the teachers tae eff off if he disnae want tae dae on page 60
e. Ah said, Charlene open the eff-in door noo Chris's huvin an on page 63
her. Chris tolt Charlene tae eff off. He said, If Kirsty's a V on page 71
arlene jist shoutet at me tae eff off, an flung a stone at me a on page 80
Also on pages 148
6 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
h heard yi, she said, Yi said EFF OFF. Ah never ah said FLICK O
1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ngelaGraham8 Oh aye, ah a fae eff! Or if you text it's 'O i A A(2021)