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The word 'facks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
facksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
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 facks in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
imagination - embellish the facks - pita bittie o a shine on t on page 53

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
for ti kill Elliot. Aince the facks is stellt, an we ken aw the f on page 140

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
eitil, but gies sum intressin facks. It luiks at the policie o th
1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ponses tae thir uncomfortable facks: surrender an denial. Unner C
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
'snap' election. Twa relevant facks were totally ignored bi the m on page 8
wis an utter disaster bit the facks were kept back, no jist fae t on page 55
rump version o reality, whaur facks are whit he seys they are? on page 56

4 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ee, 2000, 2001), some beeriet facks emerged. Ane of the questions on page 9

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ext o modren Scots Law an the facks o the case. Nearhaun sax hunn on page 25

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ae leesurely read. Hotchin wi facks, feegurs an ferlies, an scrie on page 126

1 matches

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 76 - Mither tung?, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
An facks ur chiels that winna ding. Ke
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
st hoo it might hiv been! The facks are pilin up.

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
rt’s beuk anenst historical facks an ae wheen maist informative
wis i 1930. Fur mair facks anenst the history o the Snoo
2 matches

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