A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fecker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
feckerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2142
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 33.5 13 1
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 fecker in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
p. Came at it we da hoover DA FECKER STARTS RUNNIN AWA! Bastardin (2018) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Pacey @DicaculusManiac cheeky fecker - oh btw a cheeky wee brycey (2020) twitter link
rovers am no banned ya cheeky fecker - aye there wis a faw oot - (2020) twitter link
ian_Pacey @VFSportsPix cheeky fecker lol (2020) twitter link
@dhowie5 cheeky fecker lol - am fine m8 honest - a (2021) twitter link
e a saw him on telly - dodgy fecker came 2 mind - a rest ma case (2020) twitter link
and 8 other occurrences.