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The word 'alaen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alaenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1102
ORK - Orkney 89.4 9 1
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
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 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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