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The word 'foy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
foyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.2349
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 174.4 30 5
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 foy 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.

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Du maks ready a foy fir me, on page 29
Bidden tae a Foy on page 119
Da ean haddin da foy wis pitten aboot at dis, so h on page 120
u micht even want ta lay on a foy. In da sam wye der'll be a fo on page 121
ir kye fir wir gyaan ta hae a foy. Fir my boy dat wis gien fae on page 124

19 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
runkin dem up ta gaeng tae da Foy at Uppity Haa, an Sheltie Pra on page 35

5 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ɔɪ /fɔɪ/ (foy) on page 24
abiodental fricative /fɔɪ/ (foy) on page 26

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
fur a foy, a celebration. on page 61
da birds wis hed some kind o foy on page 92

2 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
We heard aa aboot da Johnsmas Foy, whaar dey wir holidayin at a
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ht. I hed a splendid Johnsmas Foy.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
burgh Buik Festival ongaun, a foy anent the life an wark o thon
1 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
theme nicht, or hae a special foy for Halloween or Burns' Nicht on page 56

1 matches

General Central

Cameron, Peter Lallans 74 - Cannle-flame, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
a simmer’s day, a waddin-foy,
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
the hale foy tailor-makkit on page 58

1 matches

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