Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fifers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

fifers	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	6
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	12.8	5	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
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 fifers 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Some Like it Hot' But see twa Fifers thegither! on page 18
Indomitable Fifers still show it's possible on page 60

2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@paterson_h Us Fifers are made of stern stuff ?????(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- thats the diffrence n thae fifers dinnae hauf bite likes lol (2020) twitter link
kelty m8 - easy win for the fifers (2020) twitter link

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Fifers hae a name for dourness and t on page 54

1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
graves. Whit a sad day fir AW Fifers. A am jist so sad that it's c (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
hymes wi purple. Ma folks wur Fifers an yaised it aa the time.(2020)