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The word 'failt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
failtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of failt in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
But Sawney's failt tae close the yett, on page 212

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
writin. Near aa thir projects failt. The mint made tae tame the w
n what wad happen gin we pigs failt i’ wir duty? Cameron wad co
2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That failt tae live his life, ye see. on page 125

1 matches

General Central

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ion, wi hints o weir gin thay failt. Syne a Treaty wis gree’d i
1 matches

@pmcm1355 tweeted
mpt tae be pairty leader he's failt tae get electit 9 times.... u (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
s shook, that she's despertly failt, on page 12

1 matches

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