A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fyfe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fyfeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4144
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 25.6 10 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 fyfe in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ti the wirk wi a biggar frae Fyfe daein the main
Thon laed the “Keingryke o Fyfe” at, alang wi Pairth,
“Whitwey can ye wun ower ti Fyfe? Whitlik wul ye finnd thare a
the lings ledeit ower ti Fyfe, bricht an onroustit.”
Fyfe wes nemmit lang syne eftir th
10 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
d aboot the young singer Iona Fyfe, supportit by MSP Clare Adams
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ttish voices on network T.V., Fyfe Robinson bein’ the yin, emb
1 matches

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
ject o the Year and thon Iona Fyfe quine for Performer o the Yea(2020)
e Bilbao to perform with Iona Fyfe Trio at @salaBBK on Sunday 8t(2020)