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The word 'foir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
foirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.582
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
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 foir in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
be electit be the frehalders foir-saidis at the first heidcourt
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
(The Assays foir an eft is pairt o ma ain weir
him ti court. This wes a foir-test o the ill-luk we hed wi
poussed ti the foir, an it wes eith sein at shae
e awnsert an cam agane ti the foir. Fur
foir. As a lass, shae aye kempit w
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
uist o hiz up the sterr i the foir ruim, an the thocht bene mell on page 7

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
fest. Than he hauddit up hiz foir luif as the Mowdiewort staupp
1 matches

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