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The word 'fitful'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fitfulOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 4
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 fitful in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ht. Canno scrime Sumburgh but Fitful is clear enough (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Mundair, Raman Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
shooer-toarn clood ower Fitful Head on page 11

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
catch der seawird tilt ta Fitful, on page 38

1 matches

Graham, Laurence Flans Frae Da Haaf, (Shetland For Wirds 2000) Shetland, poetry
Da wind flans in frae Fitful Head
Da wind flans in frae Fitful Head
2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Da back o Fitful fae da plane http://t.co/yQA2(2013)

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