A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

alaen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 0 0 89.4 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences100 0 9 1 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of alaen in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
a truth. Sheu isno alaen. She kens sheu disno sing on page 16
r dilderan airms in comfort. "Alaen," sheu says. "Can thay no see on page 55
Eynar, awey. Noor sits hersel alaen at the bar. "My loss," sheu s on page 75
Whan he's alaen, the young eens gaen or no as on page 78
ee lang day: so here sheu is, alaen abeun the swaall ithoot a kee on page 105
Also on pages 106, 133
9 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
Dis ene alaen, for haem an wife still grein
1 matches

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