A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

alexa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 12.2 0 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences2423 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of alexa in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
ot this issue o the magazine: Alexa Rutherford haes retired as ar on page 5

1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Alexa, play ‘Ye Belong tae Me’
Alexa,” ah say, “ah dread tae a
Ah sigh. At least wee Alexa always gies me an answer.
r, but it’s no like that wi Alexa. Me and the lads doon the pub
Alexa, set an alarm fur three,” a
18 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Alexa,’ ah say, ‘Pretend tae be
‘I’m sorry,’ Alexa replies. ‘I don’t know th
happens. No even a wee bark. Alexa cannae make heid nor tail o m
3 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
@IndyScotWales my Alexa has me saying please and when(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
een a tough day in oor hoose. Alexa is even gettin shouted at by (2020) search twitter