A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ferfil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ferfilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 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
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 ferfil in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He's a ferfil fluent speaker bit he often l on page 55

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
disno: sheu's ferfil bonnie an warld-like on page 4
The loup tae haaf has ferfil gien the lie tae infienit inf on page 74
n at hoo sheu's lairned hid's ferfil grand tae be soor. Abasht, sh on page 75
ome tired, an faimly's gotten ferfil weyght. An here is Astrid, a on page 104
he yole sails oot the dock wi ferfil quiet. on page 118
Also on pages 160
6 matches

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