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The word 'fb'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fbOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52511
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23.2 9 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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 fb 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.

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
when da only eens you see on fb postin aboot exam results is (2020) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
orry, didna see dis. I saw on fb dat dey geed nort by rova hea(2015)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
@DoricPhrases your are on our FB page! https://t.co/XXHHutIcpd(2014)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
n cooking thru the Corona, on FB(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
@KeirSimmonsITV jist seen yer FB pics ...... ye might hae iron(2012)
ist left mine. Noo go like my FB status!!!! x(2012)
ol1 jist pit provoking msg on FB ..... ye must go like!!! x(2012)
st cooked toast! Msg'd you on FB bit you must o been off. Tiz (2011)
aks, readin paper, chattin on fb n settin up twitter. Fa says (2011)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
of order - your statement on fb is spot on btw (2021) twitter link
rghAth you can message on the fb stream m8 n a poot theres onl (2020) twitter link
usselburghAth am revamping ma fb account again - as theres no (2020) twitter link
it - am no banned fae there fb n twitter page yet - so whit (2020) twitter link
a seen this fotae it wis oan fb - cheers brother a thought i (2020) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Radio dis some braw anes on o FB. Nae jist sung like, bit tran(2020)

General Central

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
ry tae be positive. Ah wanted FB tae be mair like a virtual â€
is the worst thing tae be oan FB. Aye, buddies, that’s the r
plenty o’ fowk oot there on FB what will pit me richt oan th
3 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e nae my nom de plume. But on FB I gyang by my Rosa Alba name (2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
that personal information on FB then send abusive messages ta(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
at @handsupfortrad's Twitter, FB or YouTube. ????????Saturday (2020) twitter link

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