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The word 'faerd'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faerdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of faerd in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
fleggit, Lass, they wid been faerd. on page 43

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sheu wisna faerd tae luk God in the eye. on page 28

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Adie answered him, 'We wir faerd o dee, so we tried ta hoid.' on page 5
Say ta dem dat's faerd, on page 55
at med da men { da boat aafil faerd. Da men windered whaase faat on page 71
nt. Herod, of coorse, wis aye faerd dat some-ean wid tak his croo on page 81
n somethin fir naethin. I wis faerd o dee so I towt dat da best t on page 105
Also on pages 17, 161
7 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
lichteners. Noo A'm faerd I hoover up on page 31

1 matches

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