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The word 'fuckers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fuckersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 fuckers in Corpus

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South Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
clatterin past – wan o thae fuckers that acts like the world owes
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
rdeenFC Get right intae these fuckers the morn. Ajer is top o the l(2020)

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
rin brothel o wimps! Yi Freya fuckers, yi Loki shitters on page 14

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
he thoughts A hae and mak the fuckers rhyme. on page 34

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ast 5 meenits. Ah'd punch the fuckers oot! ??(2020)
offence. Ah wid lock aa they fuckers in a room thegither wi nae so(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
speak, the Top Table Twee Wee Fuckers who arrived by expensive car (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ger chained tae their royalty fuckers in WM!!(2020)
the fuck!! That’s utter sick fuckers! ??(2020)