A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fam'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
famOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.8265
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 28.9 22 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fam in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
the clessreum nou, bit is “fam” – or “fml”?
1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
haes made us aw a bittie ower famíliar wi, in weys baith guid
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
end tae you Dermot an awe yir fam fae wee me in Scotland x(2014)
ou back oan twitter efter yir fam hol! Huggggggggggsssss fae Sc(2014)
e especially @JeffBrazier and fam and awe at @ComeCoachWithMe ?(2014)
happy weekend tae you and yir fam fae a cauld and windy Scotlan(2014)
ppy Christmas tae you and yir fam tae! xxx(2014)
and 17 other occurrences.

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Northwords Now 43 - Donald Adamson, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Central, poetry
whaur A bide, tod-fam - on page 28

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Fam Raven wi yer burd's-ee view, on page 21

1 matches

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