A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'footery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
footeryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 footery in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
padlock, an loadsa other wee footery things lik spanners an a pump on page 42
that slidey paper that's dead footery that yi always end up cuttin on page 43

2 matches

@annieones tweeted
iesaurus Also if something is footery, means that it's difficult to (2021) twitter link

General Central

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
footery ideas
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
msy, awkward person or even a footery object i.e. one which is diff(2020)