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The word 'festive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
festiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71910
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.8 10 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 festive in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
year roon, bit mair so in the Festive Sizzen, an whiles theatricals
1 matches

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
deein affa weel conjurin the 'festive spirit' iss year.
hocht te fit te get folk, fit festive frock te weer; or fit soup te
aboot kittle up a wee suppie festive excitement. An if Ah'm nae qu
3 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
l wi' a' thon bleezing giepit festive hoors! #Respect(2015)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Fittie Bar fae wife o'er yon festive Xmas period! Blooming raging!(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
dae wae his HO,HO,HO bein too festive, mate." on page 97

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
he first page an opposite the festive greetin.
Auld Reekie dons hir festive face
Whan she pits on hir festive face
The festive greetin is juist like ither y
4 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
w - ignore him and enjoy the festive period guys (2020) twitter link
o the gither n its called the festive period overall - shes got na (2020) twitter link
na stop families enjoying the festive period - dont think so lol (2020) twitter link

Dundee

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
undonian weh o celebratin the festive season. It’s rooted in feml
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ebrate Christmas wi them wi a festive sausage. Tak yer dearie there
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
it normality again, after the festive season.. I'm happy wi' that.. (2023) twitter link

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