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The word 'alcoholic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alcoholicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 alcoholic in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
iking fur the drink - became alcoholic in a blink. on page 77

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
both me and dave tae fin non-alcoholic stuff dat wisna juice when we (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
s, gettin water-loggit wi non-alcoholic beverages as you an yer croni on page 94

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
plin a guid wheen o the local alcoholic delicacies, ye'll need tae li on page 9

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
yers oot there that drink non alcoholic lager tops lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
Diarmid bi indulgin in mukkil alcoholic consumption for ti spunk up t on page 5

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
A'm feelin it aw. There's nae alcoholic anaesthetic the night. on page 42

1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
014 Aye - prob the anely non alcoholic drink available wis made wi g(2020)