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The word 'ferns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fernsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 3
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) 1468.4 1 1
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ferns in Corpus

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General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
o clinkers wi wee poackets o ferns haudin tae the lip. On the ri
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
a wis ay forrigin amangst the ferns and heathers doun oan yon dam on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
n there wis a reeshlin in the ferns, and Christopher Robin and He on page 62
him. They hunkered amang the ferns, lugs cockit. The Forest wis on page 108
Grumphie gaed on pechin weet ferns, haudin his wheesht as weel a on page 109
o the Forest _--aw whins and ferns and heather - but ticht-set on page 163

4 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
gravelbed ferns, forests o trees whase kinds on page 107

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ae thick cairpets o burnished ferns an plashin iver-gaitherin lea
1 matches

Eastern Ulster (Belfast)

O Connor, Liz Yarns 3 - The Itehr Mitt, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Belfast, poetry
me o’ them drap easy on the ferns.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
tha rebbit traiks atween tha ferns an whuns an raced each ither
1 matches

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