A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fmOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus23.57816
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 117 48 2
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 26.3 20 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
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 fm in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@CalumWright2 foos his fm stats in the future ? https:/(2020)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ds her days ranting about the FM. Christ I've hardly time to d(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Capital FM soon seems tae be the best ae
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
worse than listening tae the fm and her clinician! (2020) twitter link
igh time jason leitch and the fm give the amateur football com (2020) twitter link
b wae the snp - jist ask the fm n her man n the dentist lol (2020) twitter link
r 1 imo - so u can thank the fm and jl for that - its just a (2021) twitter link
nths - and you all think the fm is doing everyone a favour? f (2021) twitter link
and 42 other occurrences.

West Central

@annieones tweeted
conditions, LFT first (as oor FM says) before visiting yer new (2021) twitter link
nniesaurus You an oor Nicola (FM) ur the oany tae people a loo (2021) twitter link
on Here's tae a guid new year FM. #ScottishIndependence7 (2021) twitter link
e wan ye hide behind? Except, FM disnt hide behind either. One (2021) twitter link
gov Seems thay everything the FM does for Scotland, upsets uni (2021) twitter link

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
The Financial Memorandum (FM) sets oot the expectit addeet on page 57
likelie tae be required. The FM shoud, unner Staundin Orders, on page 60
rnt aboot the accuracie o the FM praisentit tae the Committee, on page 61

7 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
better than nothing from the FM that's for sure.(2020)
s i have more chance at being FM than he does ??(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
hochts that syne Thursday the FM and her hauners hae been wark(2020)
us-wyse an the wyseheid o the FM micht win (or lose) mair nor (2020)
Dear FM. Thon gymnastics at Cumbernau(2020)
@ScotTories @murdo_fraser FM is a lawyer tae trade an wide(2020)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
thanMeres We need tae ask the FM if we are allowed tae dae tha(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
shank Alan Titchmarsh Classic FM Seturday asked, "How many ver (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
nt, but the bile aimed at the FM is outrageous. Everything has(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Scots are aboot tae turn the FM's 'apolitical updates' intae (2020)
@ionafyfe Switch tae Classic FM.(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ouse tae shine a light on oor FM ?? (2022) twitter link

@Sinethugcat tweeted
cotgov's investigation of AS. FM is in charge of Scotgov, so t (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
n fud! Naebody want ye tae be FM! Fuck aff!!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
otslanguage from the Ayrshire FM of Scotland @NicolaSturgeon N(2020)
FM @NicolaSturgeon weel kennt fo(2020)