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Use in varieties of Scots

alright Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.4 9.6 0 19.9 0 21.9 4.4
Number of occurrences2318 0 2 0 2 1
Number of authors15 10 2 2 1

Occurrences of alright in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id Navdeep, An ah think she's alright. Nae danger, said Charlene, S on page 30
tet fur an answer. Emm it wis alright, said Yvonne. What about you on page 169

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Are you alright, Elsie?' Harry asks, walkin u on page 50

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
'Alright, to get an idea of how well y on page 58
'Granny,' Gary says. 'Are you alright?' on page 59

3 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
,” Dave says. “Everything alright?”
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Alright soldier, how’d yi get oan t
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
that noo. ‘Naw, ah’ll be alright. Sorry fur botherin youse, ah
1 matches

Pennie, Len Toast Tae The Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
Alright lads, lang syne no see it's h
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
’d phoned to see if Ben wis alright. Efter his ‘tumble on the h
r he wis in his bed, but aye, alright. Didnae tell her about his de
2 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ssion, hope you got ma e-mail alright? ?(2014) search twitter
st tae! Hope you got ma email alright re change o date? Hope you an(2014) search twitter
id? And you got ma last email alright? xxx(2015) search twitter

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
@maceyjusticetw Hope you're alright, bud!(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
is it the now gorgeous? ???? alright then scrambled egg anything e (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
08 aye n am a saturday nights alright fir fightin gadgie lol (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e rest o me claes they seemed alright, on page 104

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
MarjoleinR Aye hid's a maalie alright. Yin nostrils at flesh, so la (2020) twitter link

Southern

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ame wi' the plastic stem were alright for folk whae hed buttonholes
1 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
ons are pretty guid; third is alright.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
But this was alright till ye stapped for the tae a
1 matches

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