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The word 'fyr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fyrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.5373
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
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 42.8 32 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 fyr in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
da fyr wis lowin on page 17

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
t fit we did, iveree tyme Jim fyr't up thi Trust tae geang, Bag on page 11
So he loaded abudee aboord an fyr't er up an steem't oot o thi on page 12
e run jist fyne eence she wis fyr't up an ther wis pluntee room on page 50

4 matches

General Central

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
€™ll no stairt mine like yon, fyr it’s a true tale an A’ll
ennet wis kent aboot the toon fyr her shairp mooth an her shair
irp mooth an her shairp mind, fyr she wis a clevyr lassie, aye
her numbers. Jennet wis kent fyr wondrin aboot the hills an gl
Jennet pyt a portion oot fyr the Guid Folk an kept some a
32 matches

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