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The word 'fancies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fanciesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82616
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 39.9 9 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 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) 58.1 1 1
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 fancies in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
tae Granny's hoose. We'll get fancies and lemonade on page 53

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
athering wae tea, bere bunno, fancies. Hid wis very litesome tae us (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ens wis aa turnin inta peerie fancies as dey lay apo da flör, an a on page 40

3 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
o I hae ta spell it oot? Shü fancies dee. Shü wants tae gying oot on page 38

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
bannocks afore. An as for da fancies, dey most hiv baked for days.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
sket stappit wi sandwiches an fancies, wis Meg Ramsay, Steenhillock
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
terin crummles an thrummles o fancies. Mooch’s kyte an mou war st
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
tae the warld that he fancies on page 55

1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
a stramash. And noo the queen fancies me. This isna a trauchle at a on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ord with the virus, see if it fancies a game of fitbaw. https://t.c(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
laddies in teir 2 a beleeve n fancies a crack at the eosl - likes (2020) twitter link

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
o buns and sugart fancies on page 129

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
is hersel an whitever guy she fancies. The day she wis talkin aboot on page 23
got a pure riddy ah ha Kirsty fancies Mister Anderson. Ah thought t on page 25
im an his pal cause she still fancies him an she thought he might w on page 78
Charlene fancies the boy in the room across fa on page 153
Charlene fancies Duffy, She's fancied him ever on page 169

7 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
e in oor minds as impulses or fancies. Few poets hae bin able tae h on page 102

1 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
ma History teacher Mr Rooney fancies ma mammy. Ah think Drew's got on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
She fancies noo a wee lie doon on page 33

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
stro 7-8 the night if onybody fancies a game. £2(2012)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
dour gye fancies on page 25

1 matches

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