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The word 'faaivver'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faaivverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.1294
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 88.3 27 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of faaivver in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
nt." Bit fit A say tae ye is: Faaivver amo ye att be anggert wi his on page 12
gien cause o her luv. Ye see, faaivver his been forgien bit smaa boo on page 92
tae foo ye hearken; cause tae faaivver his gear, mair will be gien; on page 93
, syne haud awa fae there. An faaivver winna tak ye in, fan ye gyang on page 95
ss ilka day, an dee as | dee. Faaivver leuks till his ain life will on page 96
Also on pages 97, 98, 102, 105, 109, 110, 113, 117
26 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
“Faaivver comes tae the door, nae maitt
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
d a puckle mair bars; sae did faaivver it wis doon ablow the castle on page 88

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
fowk makin it their ane. Hope faaivver steirtit it feels the same wy(2020)