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The word 'ferder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ferderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 3
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
WCE - West Central
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 ferder in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
caad Peter, 'Tak dis boat oot ferder an cast your net.' on page 87
us seemed ta be traivellin on ferder so dey said tae him, 'It's gi on page 153

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
shaan idda relivant sections ferder trowe, bit in general stress on page 29
ee. Coont nouns can be spleet ferder intae concrete nouns (laek sh on page 48
distal yun (indicatin sumthin ferder awa) an da remote dat (indica on page 58
yun is ferder awa (distal) an dat is even f on page 63
wis reduced ferder tae a, aless da neest wird st on page 78
Also on pages 102
7 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
s r turnin. Da bulbs pokin up ferder and I saw a herd o heralds- 1(2016)

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