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Use in varieties of Scots

aless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 4.1 0 0 110.4 0 0
Number of occurrences278 0 0 19 0 0
Number of authors7 2 5

Occurrences of aless in Corpus

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Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
k a play on siccan a metaphor aless he or she can lippen tae the
need tae domesticate it again aless there some geographical barri
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
alang wi his day’s earnins, aless he cud catch up wi thaim. The
wilderness. Aless, o coorse, ye cud spick Tibet
œAy, we’re baith leevin, no aless the neist warld is bluidy cau
œAy, we’re baith leevin, no aless the neist warld is bluidy cau
wis nae wey she cud speir, no aless she meant for tae dae it. Wad
6 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
aless we takk t'da sie, on page 14

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
a gairden at wance; but less, aless for poor Alice! whin shö wan on page 14
Less aless! Hit wis ower late ta wiss fo on page 35
seemed ta be makkin ony odds, aless for a grain o shakkin among d on page 53
t, you couldna cut aff a head aless dey wir a boady ta cut him af on page 88
e seen, an every last player, aless da Keeng an da Wheen an Alice on page 93
Also on pages 106, 118, 120
8 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
day whan naebody wis aboot - aless dem dat wir up ta nae göd, a on page 115
Tammas said, 'Aless I see da Loard fir mysel, I c on page 155

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
ui sed. "Bit I hae nae claise aless dis bits o plags at's buin sh on page 35

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
le wi idder varieties o Scots aless fir da eens idda plaesses at on page 7
k (/tɪŋk/) an dem (/dɛm/), aless inna sum wirds (laek ithoot ' on page 27
an onli haes naiteral gender aless for vehicles, boats an countr on page 49
wis reduced ferder tae a, aless da neest wird startit wi a vo on page 78
leepit sumthin isna possible (aless wi poetic license). Da defaul on page 83

6 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
Aa aless for Poseidon, an he raged sic
1 matches

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