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The word 'fastin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fastinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 145.4 8 1

Occurrences of fastin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ae lat aabody ken att they're fastin. Lat ma tell ye, they'll get on page 14
, bit wirshippt nicht an day, fastin an prayin. Comin in at att ve on page 83

4 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
l crack atween a fou man an a fastin. Here a whein siller. (Gies c on page 48

1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
'Verra weill, Ah'm nae fastin. Wioot a smidgin o dout, it w on page 14

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
A Prayer an fastin on page 6
e jist tae let fowk see the'r fastin. A tell ye tha truith, thïs on page 7
at tha Pharisees an us ir aye fastin, but your follaers dïnnae fa on page 9
¯n tha Hoose o God, prayin an fastin nicht an day, an tae aa thaim on page 73
"Jhone's follaers ir aye fastin an prayin, an sae dae tha fol on page 78

8 matches

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