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The word 'fedder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fedderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.1478
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 203.4 35 4
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 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 fedder in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
moral o dat is - 'Birds o a fedder, dey gadder tagidder.'" on page 91

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
aboot. Ta mak things war, da fedder, Isaac, med a lok o Esau - a on page 11
wi a lass caad Rachel an her fedder said dat he cood mairry his d on page 12
st taen up wi Joseph. Tae his fedder da boy cood dö nae wrang. He on page 13
aa respect fir your midder an fedder. on page 16
As a fedder taks peety on his bairns on page 43
Also on pages 65, 93, 97, 111, 123, 124, 125, 139, 141, 149, 151
32 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
as ivery filament is tae da fedder on page 44

1 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
named eftir his grand-fedder. Da idder crew
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s, they seen Quetzalcoatl the fedder-sarpint, bringer o graith an
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
touchin grun, floatin like a fedder athort the parks an dykes an on page 41

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'A fyte fedder,' unswered his mate, huddin i on page 40
ae a bonnie een?' He took the fedder oot his pooch, an Mrs Cadwall on page 44

2 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Fedder!" baed the Yowe, pickin up an on page 71
"Did ye nae hear me sayin 'Fedder'?" gowlt the Yowe in a feem, on page 72

6 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ped pork-pie yins wi a pyot's fedder stuck in the hat-band and Mr on page 24
were tryin tae stick anither fedder in yer bunnet.' on page 27

2 matches

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