Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'alastair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

alastair	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.1	10	7
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.1	4	2
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	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)
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 alastair in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Our Banff Academy librarian, Alastair Henderson aye keeps Scots oan (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
criticism. The punnin title o Alastair Fowler's T.L.S. review 'Eco-F on page 95

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
th P7B an "Ma Auld Granda" bi Alastair Brown P7B, baith o Campie Pri
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
t that Jake Naysmith (P7B) an Alastair Brown (P7B) wad be 1st Equal
Alastair Brown P7B 1st Equal
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ent wan oot the whole lot wis Alastair, he said, An he shot the craw on page 60
ll them apart. Then there wis Alastair. Then there wis John Boy an J on page 61

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
r the likes o Wullie Hershaw, Alastair Mackie an John Manson, wechti on page 5

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e Henrysoun tae Tom Scott and Alastair Mackie are representit. There on page 54

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
m 'Valentine' wi this poem by Alastair Mackie, 'For Bet Gaitherin St (2018) twitter link