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The word 'fairmers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fairmersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.64124
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 87.5 8 3
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 90.8 5 1

Occurrences of fairmers in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
Mart in Scots, as weel as the fairmers’ and auctioneers’ real, r
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
hit looks laek dis neolithic fairmers cam tae Shetland straicht fae on page 13
r brocht here bi da Neolithic fairmers, on page 101

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ava, fur the Bruces war dairy fairmers, nae mutton fowk.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cwid ony fairmers an their femily cum ower an b(2020)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
cy sarks. I'm sic o i eens us fairmers wear. Hinkin aboot uppin ma s(2019)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
callop shells used in coastal fairmers' parks? Drainage? Tae mak it (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
This wye ye dinna get fairmers lung on page 14
edin, for the bloody tax. Bit fairmers are a hardy lot on page 29

3 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
d lassies, and the industrial fairmers that followed them. Further o
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
aet that is producit bi local fairmers, fishermen an ither fuid prod
ly div want tae support local fairmers an fuid producers, the best w
gie them yer siller directly. Fairmers aften get slichted fan it cam
e be a possibility, buyin fae fairmers coud be the maist effective w
4 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ik, ma dad and twa neebouring fairmers took turns o gettin their pri on page 27

1 matches

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Friday tae trade wi the ither fairmers. He wis a thrawn cheil bit he on page 57

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
r min, nae doot tae charm the fairmers and fishing magnates. (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
The fairmers competition is nae till next (2016)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
alangside a guid population o fairmers an tradesmen. Nooadays it’s
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
The fairmers and the miners, baith, on page 129

1 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
wrangs o whit yi propose. Mak fairmers and nurses and fowk wi disabe
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
. Gin it had been, the tenant fairmers - wha are the fowk that wark on page 84
he law tae benefit the tenant fairmers, but whan the landit interest on page 85
d will be affordable fer yung fairmers on page 152

3 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Nouadays we hae gala days an fairmers' mairkets but back in the day on page 30
n as usual the toun wis fou o fairmers an ithers in fer the weekly m on page 105

3 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
and he seys tae the lairds an fairmers, 'Yi hae thrie weys tae chuse on page 14

2 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Fat money-men the fairmers noo, on page 53

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
@standupfarmer Aye, maist fairmers I ken like a guid doo!(2019)

@Sinethugcat tweeted
e Tayport, NEFife. Some o the fairmers jist cannea help themsels...p (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
ished here, doon in the Cree. Fairmers sheared sheep, cropped gress, on page 22

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Drumhirk an Gransha fairmers' sins, on page 1
Hae ye seen thaim boul big fairmers, wi thair shoothers oot tae h on page 21

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Tha parable o tha wickit fairmers on page 103

5 matches

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