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The word 'aka'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
akaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 aka in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Peerie whaup aka whimbrel telling me it really(2020)

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
es wyce Dr. Hamish Robertson, aka 'Old Squarebottle' (the pairt on page 124

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
es wyce Dr. Hamish Robertson, aka ‘Old Squarebottle’ (the p
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ry8 come N pick up yer lapdog aka slane dawg. https://t.co/Fm9j(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
unity spirit in ma hame toon, aka th Kingdom, is amazin’. We’(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
right name's Richard Chambers aka Ricky Chambers but he gets ca on page 169

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
ians free rein tae interpret, aka ignore, oor opinions on aathi
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
n an thi fleh Fifer Pete Cura aka Milton Balgoni. An thi photog on page i

1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
y Birthday tae ma big sister, aka Oor Mary @mhunter06639 - yin(2020)