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The word 'fek'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fekOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1137
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 fek in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
s local life”. Fir mee, the fek o a langwach is in hids reenc
nir inflooïns, taks gei mukl fek. Bit ir thir onee mor athenti
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@peediepuss tweeted
@TheBrochProject Thank fek for that ??(2020)

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ruth’, ye’l still finnd a fek ti think on in thir modren re
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
l R. MacCallum, as weill as a fek o ithers wha, in monie weys, on page 6
As weill as the uswall fek o reviews (A'm beginnin ti th on page 9

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
.. or mair sikkarlie, a haill fek o deils!): What hae ye adae w on page 135

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
cated tradition. Natheless, a fek o owresettins inti Inglish o on page 34

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
te Leid, an the langage o the fek o the population. Thar wuid h
tae the fek o they ootbye places. In ma b
ergate; whar hei bade fur the fek o his life; an wur on saivrel
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Eeeeek! Oooh! Aaagh! Fek! on page 42

1 matches

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
An gems we’v playt a fek o hours on our Nintendo Wii
1 matches

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