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The word 'aaf'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aafOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.1234
ORK - Orkney 188.8 19 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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
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 aaf in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
ran on the legs, Charlie teuk aaf her band, an wi the helter ro on page 16
uld git home again, an washed aaf the warst o the iper fae his on page 17
wan wi that square bit fenced aaf i the middle o id!" on page 20
An wip'id aaf the sweat, on page 39
The boss set them aaf wi the steeth o a skroo, on page 69
Also on pages 79, 81, 82, 88, 97
17 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The sledge cam oot and aaf we'd go. on page 42
an aaf they go. on page 149

2 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
' she telt him, flaggan them aaf on page 20
olk; or saw blue cliffs miles aaf, topped on page 21

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
gotten entel?" We got drappet aaf eit thi hotel an aye stytet b on page 41
at, a mannie caim oot an teen aaf we thi jag, leeven heis expoa on page 65

2 matches

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