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The word 'fowkies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fowkiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3216
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 75.4 17 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 fowkies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
aachil an thi Chief weis Kirk fowkies yea see. Noo, ther Kirk eit t on page 60

2 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
heid-bummer att will rowle ma fowkies in aa Israel'." on page 8
makkin it clear till e simple fowkies. Aye Fadder, att's jist fit y on page 98

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Ach, look at aa i'lonely fowkies on page 115
An i' fowkies gan tae hear her on page 170

13 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
. It’ll be maistly the same fowkies even noo. Aye, I think theyâ€
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
okinÂ’ fir th silver lininÂ’s fowkies, theyÂ’re oot there #bideatha(2020)
’s a aboot th silver lininÂ’s fowkies ??(2020)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ctionary Jist winnerd fit you fowkies thocht aboot ma latest blog??(2013)

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