Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'als'

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Use in varieties of Scots

als	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	8.1	26	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	48.6	19	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	4	3	2
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)	88.3	1	1
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 als in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
nner ti wirk stane an sklate. Als the drauchts wes siccar an cl
suin the auld ane wede awaw. Als he founnit a cumpanie ti
it fur flets. At thon tim, A als manisht ti pit ma
pleisand mainner an als furmed a wie fank at wes knaw
guid vyow. Housomdevir, shae als sein at the wes twa brace
17 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rs at the end o the day m8 - als fae byker n thats where the n (2020) twitter link
ey @ajmc1066 jist like eersel als a looker - as a said its gui (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
d Scots Tung" Maister Murison als wrate o the deiffekwalties o on page 10
ther. Samen-nems ar thusgates als eith ti redd out o the wird-h on page 11

2 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Dann? Nichts weiter als der ungewisse on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
uest was resounable, and said als that it suld nocht be his wil on page 20

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
their “constancie/deservis als great recompance”, which is
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
A flooch o wun an als awa on page 54

1 matches