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The word 'fank'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fankOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5255
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 20.6 8 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 19.7 15 2
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 fank in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
d mainner an als furmed a wie fank at wes knawn as the “Guiss
i pit the panser in the guise fank fur
set ower the dyke i the guise fank, an gat a sair gunk. It wesna
lene whitwey thon i the guise fank wesna the oreiginal. Nor cuid
ttin the tither ben the guise fank. Eftir, whan
8 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
Heich an skrank, gae mynd the fank!" The third wes ower wee. "We on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
tae the wrang planet, whan a fank o gowd, the colour o munelich on page 59

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@8tbitG Aw fank you! An a kno am lucky tae!(2020)
@BarbaraJMar Aw fank you a hus a medsin furra pain(2020)
@BarbaraJMar Aw fank you! Aye a need tae go tae a (2020)
@ElaineAlba Aw fank you! A seen a wee squirrel oa(2020)
sDaibhi FURRA REVOLUSHUN!! Aw fank you!!(2020)
and 9 other occurrences.

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Nae proggin fank (the owl fahlt!), on page 37

1 matches

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