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The word 'fey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
feyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fey in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ke, fa wis said tae be an aul fey witch, an could see things it on page 84

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n on't, Mitherin, then, wis a fey thing, a quanter thing. Steen
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
iers war easy culled frae the fey an feckless. Jude Anderson wi
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Kevin gaed her a gey fey luik an gaed back inno his ho
long. He cam furlin doon in a fey fleein
2 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
She langed tae be pairt o his fey up-abune warld and share it w on page 118

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
morn ya crabbit hoors, a moo fey o’ banana and a wee splash o(2019)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
. Aabody thocht she wis a bit fey seein as how the hoose wis ce on page 78

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
urand hir bairnheid. It wes a fey expairience, ti weitnes hyne
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ther me,' she tellt him. 'I'm fey, ye ken. I've aye been fey. R on page 8

2 matches

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Nor the first deith in that fey and seelent on page 73

1 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Or beggar fey? on page 24

1 matches

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