A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'feirst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
feirstOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.482
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)

Occurrences of feirst in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
laice's we Zoink so's he weis feirst. Thi doarmin say's, "Tikket's on page 39
buckie's eis weel. A meyn thi feirst tyme a teen eit roon Boddim, on page 64
chen, fit an affront, fur thi feirst tyme a weis blaik affruntit e on page 65
fur yea eif they notteyst er feirst. Appairt fae a pukkul scraat' on page 65
low an try an change doon tae feirst geer an sweytch aff ma injin, on page 67

6 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Feirst dra ye baith doon tae ma cham on page 9

2 matches

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