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Use in varieties of Scots

fairt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 4.6 1.5 0 98.8 0 0
Number of occurrences279 1 0 17 0 0
Number of authors5 1 1 3

Occurrences of fairt in Corpus

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Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
Ah hing oot. Weel, Ah wis nut fairt, ma ain mither showed me hoo on page 4
lum up, Ah jist think she wis fairt that we'd be waarm enough. on page 5
if it's jist because they're fairt that anither boat'll git ther on page 14
Ah wisnae fairt o' her, Ah wis brocht up tae on page 29
s tiched them. 'They wis that fairt an' ye cud hear them roarin' on page 32
Also on pages 34
9 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
dlin's eit thi ripper, an eit fairt awa a gweed bit we thi turn o on page 56

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
her, shö began, in a peerie, fairt voice, "Please, Sir - " Da R on page 18
Alice as quick as shö could, fairt at shö wis hurtit da poor an on page 22
dit, harkin dis tae him, half-fairt at he wid be offended ageen. on page 29
Haste dee!" An Alice wis dat fairt at aff shö fled da wye at he on page 33
ta her, so dat med her no sae fairt, an on shö guid: - on page 60
Also on pages 61, 81, 83, 88, 93, 105, 122, 123
13 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
be. It's nine mile. Dönna be fairt, dey'll be comin. Dey ken wha
1 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
‘Dunna be fairt boy, I’m de pal!’ said da
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
haal dem back up. We wir dat fairt as da groond aa aroond wis sh
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Some monts A’m been fairt I wid hae naethin tae tell yo
1 matches

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