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90 occurrences of fack.

52 documents matching criteria (3.95% of corpus)

193,666 total words in matching documents (4.22% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
The Borth’ick Waitter Rodger, Matt 21,032 13 0.62

... an hallmerk o thair ain ethnicitie n’? Is ae maitter o fack, A wuid leifer speak ma hamelt langage than ochts ense, ...
... the waiter heid fock bruikit, i yonner n’. Is ae maitter o fack, fock kam frae fer afield tae dance throwe til 3a.m. afore ...
... an Craik, ower the hills tae thair hames. Is ae maitter o fack, yin kan leuk strecht intil the fore door o Wolfcleuch ...
... Frankie wrocht it Mulsintoun fur Tam Scott. Is ae matter o fack Gledson wrocht it Mulsintoun fur the rest o his life, an ...
... the Joiner it Deanburnhaugh: whae wis, is ae matter o fack, ma maternal grandfaither’s step-faither. Agane, Morvin ...
The Stalking Cure [Content label: lesser] Corbett, Dr John B 6,214 4 0.64

... ain yarn – thegither the twa Macnabs mak veeve a simple fack, near sloganised bi Tommy Sheridan at the maist raicent ...
... as Buchan wis readin up on German psychoanalysis, an in fack John Macnab foresees a deal o whit Freud wid later screive ...
... in psychoanalysis – they are characters i fiction. This fack is plain as parritch, but it is warth statin anew. Bi ...
... sclithers this gate and that, and he plays gemms wi fack an fiction: Kirsty scaulds Murray whan he yaises a ...
Minnie Blackhall, Sheena 32,033 4 0.12

... An I dinna suppose it wad hae onythin tae dee wi the fack that fowk'll aye open their door tae a bairn...they ...
... the maister's bin beddit, an he's nae makkin much o't. In fack, he's turned far waur these hinmaist twa three days. Yon's ...
... seen efter. Bit fit naebody hid calculated on, wis that fack that young Matthew Bruce hid nae sea legs ava. Frae the ...
... tuik him awa. His faither, Auld Mattha, hid tae accept the fack that he wid hae three fermin sons insteid o twa, an haik ...
Scots Tung Wittins 103 Fairnie, Robert 2,634 3 1.14

... e'en a kenspeckle ane the likes o Hugh MacDairmid. In fack, thon same Scottish Government haes furthset a Scots ...
... tae whit the name itsel means - in Scots - fer the simple fack that they're spelt as if they were English. Aa ower ...
... of low-lying ground, usually by a river". Sauchiehall in fack means "the river meadow wi the willow trees" frae "sauch" ...
The Quarry Blackhall, Sheena 23,932 3 0.13

... model – Duguid’s Population Behavioural Control. Ayont the fack that Jed Anderson hid bin at the quarry the day that ...
... ower aa the yetts an ower the snibs. Thon gaed wi the fack that the Yird hid tholed winter for iver an aye. An there ...
... lang syne fand a muckle auld buik. They thocht it statit fack, an it wis fell dowie. The bard hissel, a maker-chiel caad ...
A fine Ham an Haddie Fairnie, Robert 906 2 2.21

... help takin tent o the guff o tarry raip an nets. In fack, thare wis twa an a hauf kyle o raip lyin on the bare ...
... “Ay, Geordie lad, this is no gaun tae be an easie yin, in fack, A hivnae come ower the likes o this afore. Whaur exacklie ...
A Braw Guid Alairm Fairnie, Robert 1,498 2 1.34

... Baith thae ships wis as noisy as the first yin. In fack, the Tyne wis waur than the ithers for Geordie wis aye ...
... wis his throu-the-wa neibour in the auld hoose an wis, in fack, still aye bidin in it. No haen seen yin-anither for a ...
Scots Tung Wittins 72 Fairnie, Robert 2,214 2 0.90

... consait o the Scots leid. Mistress McGugan taks tent o the fack that Angus Cooncil haes pit forrit areddies, ettles for a ...
... thon's the word that's comin back frae the shops. In fack, ither shops is gittin tae hear aboot the cairds an ...
Scots Tung Wittins 121 Fairnie, Robert 2,223 2 0.90

... million hamelt Scots speakers micht then wauken up tae the fack that aw the sindry byeleids an "local slangs" they've been ...
... haed thair Scots educatit oot o thair heids forgettin the fack that, tae win tae thair praisent positions, they maun hae ...
Scots Tung Wittins 169 Fairnie, Robert 2,226 2 0.90

... in a raw. Bad as thon micht be, whit maks it waur is the fack that ower the hinnermaist eicht year, thae fower MSPs ...
... o Dunbar tae Soutar tae Glen. I can jalouse an aw the fack that they shaw a guid knawledge o the Scots language itsel ...
Scots Tung Wittins 164 Fairnie, Robert 2,436 2 0.82

... threat tae the union itsel. Thae fowk maun hae missed the fack that Gaelic speakers is like tae feel mair Scottish an aw ...
... that speaks juist the ae language. They cannae accep the fack that, ower aw the yird, its mair natural for fowk tae be ...
Scots Tung Wittins 67 Fairnie, Robert 2,456 2 0.81

... cuidna help takin tent o the guff o tarry raip an nets. In fack, thare wis twa an a hauf kyle o raip lyin on the bare ...
... "Ay, Geordie lad, this is no gaun tae be an easie ane, in fack, A hinna come ower the likes o this afore. Whaur exacklie ...
Scots Tung Wittins 163 Fairnie, Robert 2,495 2 0.80

... concairned, thare haes tae be a guid meisure o howp in the fack that the pairty that got the maist votes an the maist ...
... the fairly traditional, recognisable anes it is the fack that the sourcin is Scottish an that that is weel ...
Scots Tung Wittins 166 Fairnie, Robert 2,498 2 0.80

... sairest for her tae beir, it juist gauns tae highlicht the fack that, gin a body's no a hamelt Scots speaker, it's a guid ...
... they're yaisin tae jyne up thair Scots words wi is in fack Scots words that English yaises an aw. (See Official Scots ...
Scots Tung Wittins 85 Fairnie, Robert 2,560 2 0.78

... National Dictionar. Shuid we pey onie tent tae the fack that unner ACTIONS, the SNDA is mintit on its lane but on ...
... group will gaun aheid wi pittin up a sign in Scots but the fack they've taen the bother tae gie thair repone in Scots maun ...
Scots Tung Wittins 177 Fairnie, Robert 2,585 2 0.77

... reader o TS Law but feel a wee bittie exoneratit bi the fack that he hisnae been includit in the canon, this in spite o ...
... a mair educatit Scots vocabular. We hiv tae tak tent o the fack that thae upsteerers that winnae yaise spoken ...
Scots Tung Wittins 105 Fairnie, Robert 2,608 2 0.77

... as a "genial 55 year old chairman of Scots Tung", when in fack A canna awn tae be oniethin ither nor a 71 year auld ...
... symbols where appropriate." His letter threapit an aw the fack that, bi wey o international practice, the maist languages ...
Scots Tung Wittins 75 Fairnie, Robert 2,610 2 0.77

... cuidna help takin tent o the guff o tarry raip an nets. In fack, thare wis twa an a hauf kyle o raip lyin on the bare ...
... "Ay, Geordie lad, this is no gaun tae be an easie ane, in fack, A hinna come ower the likes o this afore. Whaur exacklie ...
Scots Tung Wittins 79 Fairnie, Robert 2,611 2 0.77

... haes gien a nem tae the language they war quotin an the fack that they richtlie cried it Scots micht gie a wee bit ...
... some o the kinches that aye still bothers Welsh sic as the fack that, tho the'r a growthie swall o speikers amang the auld ...
Scots Tung Wittins 91 Fairnie, Robert 2,638 2 0.76

... inlat tae listen ower the wab tae stories, sangs, music an fack-lik wittins. Aw the graith will be in the oreeginal vices ...
... mair fantoosh nor the wey that they speak; sae fantoosh in fack, that maist o thaim canna unnerstaun it when they see it ...

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