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The word 'forks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
forksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41817
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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) 58.1 1 1
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 forks in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
race', Bit, soon, the clank o forks and knives ring oot their loo on page 70

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An forks wir stuck squint in the grund on page 72

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The two prong forks haev the shaiffs fae stook ta on page 95

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Haands grab at looderhorns, forks, tullys, on page 62

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
dds an sods - graips, rakes, forks, tattie. sculls, boxes o stap on page 94

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
anny tidied awa the ashets an forks an knives an tuik her cheer o
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Haudin forks an knives tae ett lamb cutlet on page 162

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
aye een o yon forks wid dee fine. Yon three taed
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Bit wait. Pit the pitch forks doon fur a second, cos he's s on page 36

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rian_Pacey get doon n get the forks oot n get that pitch rolled f (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e taur wi thir spades or thir forks; they wir deid strong an thei on page 76

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an servants had brocht - hey-forks, scythes an heuks, an even la on page 35

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
r pots and pans wi spoons and forks and onythin else that cam int on page 19

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Perrie, Walter Lallans 102 - Sindrins, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Sindrins are - sunderings, forks in the Way, on page 50

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ere'll be nae mair knives and forks tae pit oot on the table! Nae on page 107

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
epin food fae fawin aff their forks.' Cloot shuddered at the thoc on page 13

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
€˜Dae ye hae ony spare fankle-forks . . . ?’
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
cin jab an stoory flail o the forks, on page 27

1 matches

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