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The word 'fooiver'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fooiverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2146
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 73.4 7 2
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
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 fooiver in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
imly, gin ye hae ain bi then. Fooiver maitters turn oot, ye'll nae
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fooiver did loons manage afore the in(2018)
Fooiver ye are celebrating #Halloween(2020)

Aberdeen

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
e as oor ain bonnie Scotland, fooiver, it is sae lang that ye cuid on page 25

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
esit the 'Blue Lagoon' alane. Fooiver, if ye anely hae a day, or ev on page 11
r tae gang on yer city break. Fooiver, 'at daesnae mak it ony less on page 13

3 matches

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
e gettin a wee bittie better, fooiver, compare’t tae 2005-6, fan
thoot a hame. Ah div believe, fooiver, that a haundfu o tweaks shou
2 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
face opposition. An, it did. Fooiver, it maun be taen intae accoon
1 matches

General Northern

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
wirds ye winna fin in es beuk fooiver lang ye seek them. Nor-easter
1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
d, siller an waur – slaves. Fooiver, the Scaninavians werna just
(or shinty cam tae Scotlan). Fooiver, monie mair Scots gaed tae Sw
h service didna aye get alang fooiver. In ae case the German cavalr
3 matches

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