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The word 'fairmin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fairminOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22314
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of fairmin in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
3700-3600 BC de'r evidence o fairmin lifestyle in Wast Voe, as dey on page 13

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
window on a vanished world o fairmin in the North-east afore the W on page 94

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
irns. Ah'm a country quine an fairmin's nae a choice. It's in ma bl on page 21
ree quines wi nae interest in fairmin or the life aat comes wi it." on page 89
though it'd bin a gweed life, fairmin hidna really bin a choice, it on page 95

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
ma upbringin in a North-east fairmin community. It wis a simple bi
1 matches

General Northern

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Ye micht nae come fae fairmin fowk on page 26

1 matches

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
n he grew up wi a passion for fairmin. He boucht a fairm in Aiberde on page 57

1 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
a 'posh boy'! He's a teuchter fairmin chiel.. a dairymin like his d (2020) twitter link
Dinna fash chiel. Ah'm a fairmin quine fae ih Garioch - a ric (2021) twitter link
Grand!! Ah'm a fairmin quine fae ih Garioch, a richt (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 71 - O Niver ti Dree Corruption Mair, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
he’s wee an curly-heidit, a fairmin lass, an she’s sat up at th
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
at. Then we hae oor fishin an fairmin sectors, the warld-wide whisk on page 133

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s efter 4,000 AC, an stairtit fairmin, is the exack same fowk as oo on page 110

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
this fairmin chiel does in his buik unfold on page 36

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
noo, fur he wusnae up tae tha fairmin onie mair, bot he kep his han on page 16
An tha fairmin fowk o Ulstér lea hairth an on page 20
unchers, tairtan shirts ~ fur fairmin thon's tha ticket. on page 21

4 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
kie skeels tha like o biggin, fairmin an toon ettlin; an kines o me on page 7

1 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Balmoral Shew an' ither fairmin daeins in the laikes o' Lurga on page 45

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
air bïzness o buyin, sellin, fairmin an biggin. But tha verie day on page 99

1 matches

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