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The word 'fowre'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fowreOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1265
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 50.2 8 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 149.7 12 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 fowre 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.

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
are!" an he flang doun thrie, fowre gowd peces on the thrashel. " on page 4
me a siller fowre pennie on the first o ilka mo on page 5

4 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
he'r adherents o ilkane o the fowre Frainche pairties - Legitimi on page 1
sse, ir sel-akkin bedsteid on fowre whurls. A hed a lest intervyo on page 5

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
Cheptour Fowre on page 41

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
st lik a roup. Lowpin aff hiz fowre legs at aince, in the jo o le
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n Alexander Reid hissel. Thae fowre wrocht pleys in Scots, braidl on page 37
ch. The pley is punctuatit wi fowre laments that act as een mair on page 40

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
camions an fowre-traks gurr on page 48
fowre in the bliddy moarnan on page 81
fowre in the bliddy moarnan on page 82

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
and, owre the laist threi til fowre hunner yeir, div ee na think
l an Henwudie: tae git til aa fowre, ane hed tae walk up an autho
ae dochters an A think it wur fowre schons; gin A mind richt, the
Roadman’s fowre wheeled, wudden cleedit wagon
aboot his fowre wheeled place o residence; an
12 matches

South West (Galloway)

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
a muckle tail-tree back an fowre. on page 135

1 matches

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