Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fred'

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Use in varieties of Scots

fred	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9.9	33	15
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern	26.6	6	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	57.7	13	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	10	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	11.8	9	5
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 fred 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

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
onnie grinned. "My nickname's Fred Flintstone an Ah'll mak yer B on page 53

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
s wis Maggie Tyler an her man Fred, an on the ither side o her w on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Bruce: Good evening, Fred. on page 40

3 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
ot aff i'bed, threw a vase at Fred's head on page 163

2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nRamsay on yon Gordon, Gino & Fred canna even pronounce Brechin (2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
up tae the praisent day. When Fred MacAuley speirt a curn o hauf
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ck in her mind depended on if Fred's parrot wis really as guid a on page 35
o bingo, Matilda set aff fur Fred's hoose tae investigate. She on page 36
'Ye cannae mak it talk,' Fred said. 'Ye huv tae gie it time on page 37
and ran wi it aw the way tae Fred's hoose. on page 42

12 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Lindy Hop an ah love watchin Fred Astair an Ginger Rogers daein on page 22

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ry mornin n night. A've git a Fred Perry tracky on, a black Carb on page 9

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
hat cunt - him there wae the Fred Perry polo shirt - is in the
1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Burns, Hamish and Sang Fred Freeman Pairt Three - Scots on page 58
is pairt three o an essay by Fred Freeman publisht in Zallans. on page 65

4 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
FRED LIFTIT THE BUH... BAH... BEE. on page 14

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
e. At the funeral oration tae Fred Brand Jr, winner o the Bob Jo on page 9

2 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
RobbieClyde Luikin gey smert, Fred.(2018)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
libraries FU o books in Scots Fred and A teach the Scots leid in (2022) twitter link