A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ffs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ffsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus46.71528
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 352.5 139 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 5
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 ffs in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
hat a bit too far there Roddy FFS Thatcher?(2021)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
FFS! The quine said we wis anely (2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@acatherwoodnews @maitlis ffs a thought his ear wis leaking (2020) twitter link
astro pitch wae a few puddles ffs lol (2021) twitter link
through 2 morro - n its off ffs lol - there at the lash imo (2020) twitter link
not up to you though is it - ffs! (2020) twitter link
ddies a liability - dump him ffs lol (2020) twitter link
and 134 other occurrences.

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
arkyB Clicked naw by accident ffs.(2020)

@MartinBroon tweeted
imetable every other Saturday ffs... ????. ????????????. ??????(2019)
FC Whit is it wae these games ffs! They're always playin most o(2020)
that’s whit We’ve goat left ffs! ????????????????. ??????(2020)
a twitter action oan Ma phone ffs!(2020)
@ClydeFC We wur winnin ffs! Some cunt takin the piss her(2019)
and 1 other occurrences.

@Chazzbat tweeted
sex?! The clue's in the name, FFS! ??(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@BoringOleFart FFS, jist spat ma tea aw doon ma (2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
were effin in their 30s/40s, ffs (2022) twitter link
@kelly_white_2 "FFS, I'm trying tae get ready tae (2022) twitter link