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The word 'afoar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
afoarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5152
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 42.5 13 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 afoar in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Makk hæst wie da hærst afoar nyght's faa. on page 18

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Frisk Waatir Troot, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
Afoar he laerns t'sykil a byk
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hort braak ana cupplie a tae, afoar we hid tae clim baak up again on page 5
thi aul mayjer mair wuty, fin afoar Muskey cood rein tae siafty t on page 6
k ken. Noo, jist aboot a yeer afoar eis, their weis twa or thri o on page 30
weirs fur sma boatie's. Noo, afoar ye got entae thi exibmien yea on page 39
ed tae get tae thi ither hauf afoar oneybudee else, an fin aitten on page 41
Also on pages 55, 56, 57, 64, 65
13 matches

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