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The word 'fave'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 4
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 fave in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Skooty Aalins are een o my fave birds (as are Guillys and Nor(2020)
Love dis pic o some o my fave birds. https://t.co/d6YkdLkmx(2017)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
bonnie thing @Historic_Ally. Fave quote, Evelyn fae Buckie blet (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
rf and I said Joe had been my fave player as a young loon and ra (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
London Bridge. History’s ma fave subject by far, it’s full a
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
London Bridge. History’s ma fave subject by a mile, it’s fu
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
efter this. Mind ye, Sandra's fave year aulder than Cathy and al on page xv

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
movie Mannaquin wis one o ma fave movies tae!(2014)
I dae ma ane, a listen tae ma fave tunes? xxx(2014)
@PeriOlufunwa Enjoy! One o ma fave movies was The Neverending St(2015)
@MaxGeorge .. Enjoy! Ma fave yin tae play wuid be Bon Jovi(2016)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
as a couple of months old. My fave is What Makes a Baby, by Cory(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
e look up wurds. Unanimously, fave wurd wis 'boak' :-)(2016)

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