Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fether'

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Use in varieties of Scots

fether	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.8	25	9
ORK - Orkney
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	20.5	8	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	219.7	7	2
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	88.3	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	256.1	5	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	42.2	3	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fether in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
hid tae dae it, of coorse, ma fether dee'd whan we war aw jist bit on page 6
ks fur? They cannae be fur ma fether, he'd git in them richt enoug on page 7
trusted that wee drochle o' a fether o" hers as faur as Ah cud hae on page 26
n be gan tae the sea with his fether. Tae me he's jist a bit bairn on page 37

7 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
h @TheShireFC eeve no seen ma fether dustir lol (2020) twitter link

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
s Ma Mither, My Father was Ma Fether'. Her Scots is fouthie and na on page 54

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
"Repeat, 'Yae ir oul, Fether Wulliam'," said the Caterpill on page 45
"Yae ir oul, Fether Wulliam," the yeng man said, on page 46
"In mae youth" said haes fether, "A tuk tae the laa, on page 48
Said haes fether; "dinnae gre yersel airs! on page 49
oot hir repeatin "Yae ir oul, Fether Wulliam," tae the Caterpillar on page 103

6 matches

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
r time, bak tae the days o me Fether on page 44

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Ultach Midgates, (Reddit 2020) Ulster, poetry
Aucht tae his mither an fether .
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
n tha hoose nixt-dorr til his fether, wi his wife, Sirrah Mcllroy, on page 7
eeved maist o his life in his fether's hoose, til tha hale raa wus on page 8

5 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Wee Broon Hen, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
"Come take a look" me fether he said ,and sure it was only
So thanks tae me fether that I write this wee poem, a
2 matches

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
's in joogins...wait till yer fether gets hame...al tha time shae
1 matches