A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62012
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 2
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fas 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.

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Then Nick, he speirt fas poem wis better, on page 16

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
m fur the evenin meal. Matty, fas neb wis niver ooto a buik, lo
'Fas the angel, aunt?' Minnie spei
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
hard-wirkin fowk the Ngobos, fas idea o a stooshie wis hett Go
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Bruce wis a wyce wee loon fas fingers war aywis ettlin tae
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
a teuchter, maybe a fermhand, fas nae affa bricht and disni ain(2019)
@JohnSmi0077 @bobbrown46 Fas at? Batman on a bike? ??(2020)
@aberdeentaxi1 I mean, fas he spikkin till?(2020)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e yer vote. An thanks ta abdy fas voted ariddy??. Hae a bonnie (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
e was thinkin o aa the freens fas company he haed wintit in Ire on page 30

2 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
e biggest ane - 'Las Fallas' fas in Mairch ivery 'ear. 'Las Fa on page 4
ace'. The city employs a body fas job it is tae dress the 'Mann on page 13

2 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
owre sair, fas greed garred folk rebel so hi on page 10
a livin testament fas ichor seeps on page 46

2 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
@RossAndrew7 fas deed like?(2013)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the kind that ah wis in that 'fas heart machines an monitors an on page 151

1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ww.jpl.nasa.gov an http://www.fas.org/mars/marslife.htm. Organi
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
an fas oan her lang hair on page 41

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
cumin up ahint me an brethin fas.
1 matches

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