A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

eff Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 3.5 9 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences147 6 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of eff in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h heard yi, she said, Yi said EFF OFF. Ah never ah said FLICK O on page 19
e jist tells the teachers tae eff off if he disnae want tae dae on page 60
e. Ah said, Charlene open the eff-in door noo Chris's huvin an on page 63
her. Chris tolt Charlene tae eff off. He said, If Kirsty's a V on page 71
arlene jist shoutet at me tae eff off, an flung a stone at me a on page 80
Also on pages 148
6 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
h heard yi, she said, Yi said EFF OFF. Ah never ah said FLICK O
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
niver pet ma aff a wis shoor eff a perseveert anuff eit sum da on page 1
oda heen yer heed nocket aff, eff ye hid poppet up a curn meene on page 17

4 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@watterloony Eff sake. I wint for a shite ??(2020) search twitter
laforbes32 Folk like that can eff right off. I'm jist ower 3 st(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ngelaGraham8 Oh aye, ah a fae eff! Or if you text it's 'O i A A(2021) search twitter