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The word 'fanks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fanksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 20 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fanks in Corpus

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Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Aw fanks man. Ur you playing the night on page 3

1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@raiphsays Fanks ma freen. Means a loat ??(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
@GavinMackay16 Aw fanks! A luv daein em!(2020)
LeftVoices @goanabootbiddy Aw fanks!(2020)
@PipsUkes Aw fanks! A wis wantin tae make em fer(2020)
rafcurley86 @jeffdahkillah Aw fanks hes daein good!!(2020)
Wee Steve buscemi fanks aw a #teampeepee voters! ????(2020)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@raiphsays @SgothanGeal Fanks Raiph ????! (2021) twitter link
@raiphsays @Alexx_McArthur Fanks Raiph, am near 50 an ah still (2021) twitter link