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The word 'faerce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faerceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 faerce in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
on!" Alice telt hersel, kinda faerce-wye. "I advise dee ta stop yo on page 14
said da Caterpillar, soondin faerce. "Explenn deesel, lass!" on page 44
Shö said da hidmast wird dat faerce an coorse-wye, at Alice fairl on page 60
e anidder groint, an datten a faerce groint at shö wis kinda on page 62
da pepper at wis med her sae faerce whin dey met ida keetchen. on page 89
Also on pages 94
6 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
nae saaft smoorikin, but a faerce kyiss. on page 25

1 matches

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