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The word 'faroes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faroesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
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 faroes in Corpus

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Orkney

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Orkney, Shetland, Faroes too, were aa made fae they bi
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
king formation 2 nite against faroes - ffs should that no b the c (2021) twitter link

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
and thae pit tae sea fir rhe Faroes, Orkney, Shetland, Scotland, on page 14

4 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
e tae see can we no skelp the Faroes an Hungary first. #UlsterScot (2015) twitter link