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The word 'fairms'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fairmsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.93312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 52.5 5 3
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fairms in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hey reenged ower the nearhaun fairms ettin aathing clean in, a pla
een. The missin echt war frae fairms tae the wast o Dunracht, an t
bairns o schule age frae thon fairms war aa present. Ilkie bairn s
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
etic-modifaction fish an crop fairms ained bi the state an run fra
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wikk lang, bairns frae the fairms aroon hid gaithered auld boor
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
'll whiles fin ye wark on the fairms. An some of them'll see ye ha on page 30

1 matches

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Colin jist fairms wi' loads 0' dung on page 14
Tae three fertile fairms doon at Turriff on page 13

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
na mair nor a haanfae fae the fairms roon about here. Some athoot on page 18

1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
. Prisoners couldna leave the fairms they were allotted tae and th on page 27

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
arnie parks later, we war twa fairms awa frae North Gellan. 'At la on page 51

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whilst fowk oan faur off fairms watch, fearfully, the skies. on page 40

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
n ye kin find Roman villas or fairms oniewhaur in Scotland. Ye cin on page 99

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
yne bidin on an warkin on the fairms in the rich Ayrshire kintrae on page 23

1 matches

General Central

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
Aw the fairms in the Ochils didnae hae a yo
1 matches

Donegal (East Donegal)

Millar, Alan Yarns 3 - Sammy Thomson's, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - East Donegal, prose
hooses an fairms; skailin on doon athort tha b
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
folk: inaboot their hooses an fairms, their clachans an toons. Wha on page 5
An fae tha fairms an loanens, on page 30

2 matches

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